CHAPTER 5: Discoveries and Daydreams
A Teacher’s Perspective ──────────────────────────────────────────── Vivek Puri sat at his desk, staring at a paper. In all his 17 years of teaching, he had never met a student so exceptional as Alessandro. Mr Puri couldn’t find one mark to detract, on a writing paper, that too. As an Italian, he probably found French rather easy. But still, seeing such high-quality output reminded Mr Puri of why he had started teaching all those years ago. It was so he could nourish the minds of his students, and watch them grow academically and as people. And doing so was immensely satisfying. He scribbled down a nice big ‘ (42/42) ’ on his paper, and pushed it aside to grade the next one. AYESHA VENUGOPAL He just had to look at the first page to tell that this was not going to be like Alessandro’s paper. He noted down corrections, of which there were many. Did she seriously forget the gender of a table?? And she forgot to put accents on half of her é’s. He turned to the next page, but he wasn’t look...