When I started teaching my students how to read, I was discouraged. These were students in the senior class and they could not pronounce “four letter words”! But I continued nevertheless and hoped that my own bit would go a long way. One day after classes, I was approached by one of the students. He told me in a shaky voice that he wanted to know how to read well and understand. I was touched, I was happy that my little bit to teach the m how to read had germinated an interest. I agreed to take him extra classes in reading. Its not always easy to trudge on in uncharted waters, neither is it easy to proceed in seemingly discouraging situations but what really matters what should push you to take that step is the life you help to make better, the life you help give a meaning. The life of a person who took your own bit and made it bib. As I write this today I recall the words of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the founder of “the Boy Scouts” in a farewell message to his scouts, he said among other things ‘try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best”. When I started teaching my students how to read, I was discouraged. These were students in the senior class and they could not pronounce “four letter words”! But I continued nevertheless and hoped that my own bit would go a long way. One day after classes, I was approached by one of the students. He told me in a shaky voice that he wanted to know how to read well and understand. I was touched, I was happy that my little bit to teach the m how to read had germinated an interest. I agreed to take him extra classes in reading. Its not always easy to trudge on in uncharted waters, neither is it easy to proceed in seemingly discouraging situations but what really matters what should push you to take that step is the life you help to make better, the life you help give a meaning. The life of a person who took your own bit and made it bib. As I write this today I recall the words of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the founder of “the Boy Scouts” in a farewell message to his scouts, he said among other things ‘try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best”.
