A New Session begins.......

The new semester begins on 3rd of June and I make my own preparations to begin my classes on Financial Management and Security Analysis.... same routine of starting with Time Value of Money, an important concept to let them understand the intricacies of Valuation later...... preparing III Semester students to work hard .. thinking how to load them with work right from the first class, Would CML, SML calculation not be the right project to be given in the first class?..... After entering into the class, I take a careful note of the enthusiam of the students about a new subject, their willingness to accept pressure, their ability to retrieve past information and based on that I will plan my future sessions.... The class is in a cheerful mood, I hope this mood prevails throughout the semester. One odd student is naughty, he/she is to be loaded with more work and responsibility, I find someone just on the verge of dozing off, heavy eyelids, a great effort to keep them open, I think of throwing a question at him but this is the first class so I decide to ignore.....
This comes as a part of a routine every year, when the semester starts and I have to make sure that students and I settle down in class and everything falls in place.
I try to step into the shoes of an individual student. For him its a new world opening for him. I will help him to expand his horizons, give him an understanding of basic concepts about capital markets, economy, open a new world for him to explore so that he is empowered to take a critical decision. Should he acquire this space as his future profession, his karmashetra? As I speak in class a forty pairs of curious eyes look at me trying to interpret what I expain. They put a faith in me and in what I teach them. I realize that I have a power to lift the level of general curiosity to a level of a persistant and indulgent effort to acquire knowledge, a knowledge which may in future help them in generating material returns out of it or probably generating a pleasure of having acquired knowledge itself, a knowledge for knowledge's sake.. I don't know how many details of this process of classeroom learning they will remember ten years later, or how much of it I will remember in future, but a forty pairs of curious eyes looking at me definitely motivate me to begin this process with conviction, a conviction of a Teacher starting a yet another session as part of a teaching routine, but still a very special and unique work in itself. I hope I am able to deliver up to what I am expected of.