IT was George Eliot who said, “Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. He’s my kind of man... and there are many victories worse than defeat.”
Take a teacher and throw him into the lion’s den and you will be able to see how true Eliot’s words are. The den I am talking about is none other than the bottom classes of every form where the most intellectually-challenged of our students are housed. Here is the battleground for every teacher to test his true mettle. Here is where he can test how strong his armour really is. And here too is one place where a teacher, rather than con-cede defeat, must thrive on small victories.
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