Lecture

This is the story of me being in 8th standard of my school. I and my friends in the class hate the History lecture. This subject was the most hated among the other subjects and same goes with the teacher. She was from Kolkata and Bengali accent could easily be felt in her voice. Only thing which was common between us was the interest. She was not interested to teach and so we were not interested to learn. One day we were informed that a professor will come to meet us tomorrow. He was a history professor in the best college of the city. Still, the subject history was most hated.
Being in school we were not suppose to go home or bunk the lecture. Our time was dependent on bus timing. Once you are in the premises’ you can leave it only when the bus come, else be there and sit on the last bench.
We were in premises’ that day and ran to grab the last bench. People use to fight most of the times as who will get the last bench. The one who misses it sits on the first row. We call them warrior. Because when they still feel sleepy and they can’t close their eyes. I was lucky one who got the sit on the last row.
A short figure, old age, silver hair entered in the class and everyone stood up. He smiled and said sit down. He asked few question about us and was walking in the middle of two set of benches. This path was the area on which teacher can reach up to the last student while teaching.
He asked whether we like the subject or not. No one answers. He again asked now everyone said ‘No’. He took the book and pulled out a topic related to Ashoka. He told us about his childhood, he becoming the greatest warrior in the Indian history. He went on saying and we kept listening. Everyone was imagining as part of the story and 2hrs went so fast that no one thought of. We haven’t heard lectures like that in the past. It was fantastic. After the lecture he asked again, do we like the subject? We said ‘YES’.
What exactly happened was not magical. Subject we hated most was never interesting for us. It was the way he taught us. Doing work daily make us monotonous but still we had to complete the work. What a good leader need is make the work interesting such that people should enjoy. They should feel being part of it.
I have learnt the lecture and learnt from what happened. If you need to bound the people around you and make them happy with the work, just make it interesting.
There would be no back benchers again.