A Corporation school teacher

“A Corporation school teacher”

A 78 year old Mr.Gupendran; a former elementary school teacher served the students for about 38years in Chennai. A 78 year old man belong to soo kuppan in senji, Tamilnadu is a son of a farmer and now residing in Aparav thottam near metha nagar,he started his higher studies in Chennai  by staying in his aunt’s home and later moved out after marriage. He finished his ESSLC in dindugal and completed his teacher training in egmore -thazhamuthu natarasan mazhligai; it was a teacher training campus in 1952.He is a follower of Buddhism and stopped being non vegetarian by his 27th age.

The teacher almost transferred to 5 schools at various parts of Chennai. The best subject he can handle is Tamil and he says a poem “Thanakku uvamai illadhan thal serndharkku allal manakkavalai maatral aridhu” from ‘Thirukural’ to give an example for culture and discipline, as we all know it’s from the worlds book of knowledge. He is a strong supporter of Dravidian party and never missed a single speech addressed by former C.N.Annadurai and Periyar E.V.Ramasamy.”I cultivated interest in atheism when I personally felt most of the spiritual Hindu tales are fictions and in that thirukkural is an exception “he adds.
 

He learns more than the teacher through television and imitates those things practically and he fails to understand the shown scenes are crafted by a director. His unconscious mind accepts the scene as real. The angriness towards teacher is practically executed by the child; the great example is a St. Mary's school incident at parry’s, adds the teacher. 

 
Mr.Gupendran has two sons and a daughter, one son is working in mnc, other works in a company, where as his daughter is a homemaker. We must create awareness among children about supersites believes, discipline, fake stories on ghosts.”Our educational system is designed for exams and test not practical and field work based education” says the former teacher. He is strongly determined and his true dedication in teaching made him to take tuition to the poor school going kids for free of cost but with lots of discipline and culture.
 

“It is colorful and lots of fireworks when we got freed from British monopoly and at that time I was in 6^th grade “says Mr.Gupendran. He differs from other elementary teachers as he starts classes half an hour ahead of the school timings and teaches 1 to 16^th multiplication table in mathematics, on those days 16 anas is equal to one rupee. He thought important messages of Thirukkural, Basic English grammars, reading and writing in English and he will not pressurize children’s rather than these portions since it’s mandatory for every child’s life.

_lingaraja