teacher as reader.

its the color that attracted me
the amazing sounds
the ambiguously perfect meanings
that i was amused by

i was mistaken by the comics
blindfolded by the text
irritated by the comprehension
hated and rejected because of exams

happy, encouraged, excited for the first class
s trucked from some new words i gasped#
hurriedly looked into the dictionary
WHAT!!! i already knew it

continued text, so many words,
already read but never had thought

now on more than 100th books,
teacher has a very less new word look
"you are confused, read the sentence
UNDERSTAND, don't be amused"

teachers knows everything, yes they should and must,
no,no teachers are human not gods,
i doubt,
if you are teaching then you should know,
or teach the level you can help them grow

i am a teacher and i am proud
i read because i have to make my knowledge sprout

read then you understand your child,
read then you love into the wild,
read then there won't be new words,
read then you speak your guts,
read then you understand world
read then you understand you

it's better if you are reader then teacher
but when you are reader,
you won't be a teacher,
you are facilitator or creator,
BUT
if you are teacher and reader,
you are satisfied and happiness transmitter
you are KnowledgeStorm and learnt one
whom all understand as the case already gone

-pabitra





My friend Santona asked me to write something for her something actually she just wanted some words and i wrote and re-wrote it and sharing here. Hope its nice to read.

He came rushing, eyes filled with tears and face filled with anger and disgust. He asked me ‘who’s the toot*(we use it for slang words) that kept the paper on his forehead’, I had no idea what he was talking about so I said ‘what paper’, he never looked so dissatisfied and hurt. ‘I don’t know who the toot kept a paper on his forehead, written, NOT DONE HOMEWORK’. I was blank, I wanted to say I made the other people go this limit, it was me who said ‘yes, he is so naughty I don’t know what to do, no punishment will make him improve any of his habit, it was me who talked with his parents and then only knew his background, his family and his infancy because he is still a child, and it was me who promised that now we will take care of him because he is such an artist who will do something in his life’, I couldn’t say any of this. It was lunch time I thought everyone must be outside I should take him and keep him safe from everyone’s eyes and tell him ‘I am here, it’s ok now’ but tragedy I was already late, very late. Everyone already laughed at him, teased him and every other person now already knew him as a boy who has NOT DONE HOMEWORK.

i entered the class, children were teasing him and he was defending himself, as he always do this. i didn’t stop anyone, i just pretended i knew nothing about. One of the “smart kid” tried to explain their talk but i diverted his talk on the lesson. This was the first time after 6 months that he was quite and i didn’t took his name and ask him to be quiet, when i was going outside after my class, he didn’t asked me to bring MLTR song tomorrow, he didn’t even bid me goodbye with the loud ‘THANK YOU TEACHER’.

i am not an expert and don’t even have any qualification to say any of these things but i always know the opposite meanings of love, care , feeling of appreciation and acceptance that is why i don’t understand what is wrong with us, why we don’t understand that children are just children, they don’t understand punishment, hurt and homework. They only understands smile, laughter, happy face and creating their own ideas. i have shouted at the children, i have made them stand in front of the class with their hands up and i have warned them about their assignments and i have also realized that they don’t understand any of these things, they only understands love and sharing. we don’t have to shout if our class is interesting, we don’t have to make them stand in front of the class if we listen to them and what they have to say, we don’t have to warn them about assignments if it is interesting and if we are good human or just a human we don’t have to humiliate a child with paper on his forehead saying NOT DONE HOMEWORK.

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