Dream Job!

Teaching has been my dream profession for quite some time. I don’t know why, but every time I am alone thinking of what job would suit me, I think I should teach moral science to school students. During my school days, moral science used to be the first 20 minutes of the day. Usually meaning it was the time when we all would take our own sweet time to settle down, talk to everybody in the class, let the teacher take her roll call and then maybe, if there was still time left, we would read poems about Indian culture or about patriotism or maybe discuss how many poems would we have from the moral education textbook that we would have to mug up for the namesake moral education exams. The exams were usually to fill in the blanks on lines from these poems; and I used to wonder about what a waste of time all that was.

But now, when I meet kids of the school going age, when talk to them; I feel there is so much more that they should be exposed to. Such young age, when everything around them is new and a learning experience, when all that they see and hear affect their personality, when their mindsets can be altered to open up to the world, that’s when I want to tell them about how the world around them has shaped in to what it is now, about how they can be the change that they intend to become, about how their ambitions should be mixed with their passion, about how to live selflessly, about the vast blue sky, about the planets and the stars, about their country, it’s people, its culture and languages and traditions, about the concept of gods, about the darkness in humans, about the love and affection that they see every day, about the latest technology, about writing, about reading,  about our historical monuments, about the great leaders we once had, about the leaders we have now, about analyzing news, about observing people, about enjoying food, about the green colors on the leaves, about the fun in climbing a tree, about not being judgmental, about planting trees, about global warming, about fellow humans, about pets and wild animals  and I don’t know how long the list will go.

I had wanted to learn and know all this when I was young. Instead I was handed a textbook and was asked to mug up what someone had written and then spit it out on exam papers. Yes, I believe that is necessary too considering the ‘competitive’ world outside. But then I want to explain to them how to open an account in a bank before they learn to calculate compound interest, I want them to know why a prism was made before they learn to do experiments on refracting light, I want them to not be scared of cockroaches and frogs before they dissect dead ones in labs and I want them to know that they themselves are a big combination of chemical compounds before they learn to create Sulphuric acid. I want them to know the need to read books and how to understand them before they start to hate learning. I just want to teach them about themselves. I want to be a teacher.