Anticipating good things to come is a pleasure without bounds. Even when I was a school-going kid, the most exciting days were just before joining the new academic year. What would be the subjects…who would be teaching….which new books…so many things made up our chit-chat points among friends. And I see that happening every year even today, but in a different way.
Of course the medium of interaction with friends now is savvy with technology. There are social networking groups, specialist portals and what not. Very often when new students join our institute they would have been in touch with senior students who would have set the tone of expectations. Biased or not, they become the starting points in the student-lifecycle. We, as teachers, therefore have tasks cut-out with not only meeting those unknown expectations but also chalk out plans to learn, relearn and also unlearn. Nonetheless it is probably as exciting for teachers as the new students. Because teachers too have that pleasure of anticipation… sometimes greater expectations of what their students would become! And that pleasure as teachers certainly has no bound!

