"From Kitchen to Classroom" - A Teacher's Blog

Lecture Notes on Water Microbiology

Classroom topics like Air, Water, Sewage, Food Microbiology coming under applied aspects of curriculum have been always considered boring for the teacher and the listener, and I always begged to differ. I could never contain myself, on more than one occasion, to stray away from the topic sometimes philosophically and sometimes aggressively and waste a few lectures, preaching things which are not confined to the boundaries of curriculum. I always thought I was really preaching the "bench tied" scapegoats, out of their academic interests. Though most of the times it may remain true, but occasional rewards like this poem from an amateur simmering harmone of a thoughtful teenager makes that whole effort rewarding. Most of the alumni too keep rewarding by mentioning how vital they see those "out of track" talks which may have not fetched any marks but have left a permanent mark in their lives. I wonder how many science teachers and their lectures have been heard as a song and gradually been converted into a poem in students' mind. If there is an feeling for getting the highest reward for being a teacher then I am a proud owner of it at present.