Teacher's day

It was when I was studying 8th Std my mother was worried about my career. So, I joined for tuition with R. Manoharan who had just retired from being a Head Master at Govt. School.

I was the first student who joined tuition with him. He taught me Maths and English. Since, I was the only student, he would use my note instead of board. When I completed my 10th Std., it's almost 10+ short note books for English Grammer and 3-4 long note books for Maths.

He used to share his college experience, teaching experience in schools, different kind of students and politicians when he was at college.

I don't know if this is true.

When former CM Annadurai was at a foreign country a journalist wanted to test his English proficiency. The journalist question him "Can you write a sentence which has three "because"?

Annadurai replied: "No sentence ends in because because because is conjunction"

R. Manoharan was one of the Aacharya's whom I am most indebted.

There are many words to describe teacher/tutor/lecturer/professor etc. but Aacharya means one who profess what he teaches/preaches.

It was during 8th std annual leave I joined typewriting institute near my house. Initially, I thought, let me do it for 2-3 months. But, it went for 2 years. I did lower and higher in English and learnt fingering in Tamil. Then, Government norms allowed students to write Typewriting exam only when they have passed 10th std. So, I had to wait till I got my 10th Mark Sheet to write the higher exam.

I hear that now Tamil Nadu Government has brought it down to 8th Std. Please verify.
This skill has helped me to document stuff easily while others were still searching for letters in the keyboard.

Prof. Ashok Rao, Head(Network Project), CEDT, IISc used to visit TCE. He is an inspiring teacher and social entrepreneur. When I last met him, he was running a MS course on political science, economics, etc on his own. I got introduced to Linear Algebra through his lectures. During my ME course, I was fortunate enough to spend time with him and the interactions with him has helped me in shaping my career.

I am most indebted to these three people.