I know a few teachers and professors possessing the attribute of praising the habit of students’ raising a lot of questions, but I have found and known personally two of them as the same who even have taught me and have shaped my definition with regard to the process of teaching involving learning and unlearning. One lives in my hometown, and the other lives here. After a phase and attaining a certain age, I started appreciating the people in the field of teaching whose ways of practicing their profession, thoughts, and ideas leave a space for you to have a dialogue, to engage and interact with issues having complexities, to ask and raise important questions, to look for answers, and to think more from the point they left. My teacher in the hometown used to say that raising questions to the existing knowledge is like fuel to the engine, and my teacher here always used to appreciate showing his welcoming behavior towards the students whenever they raised questions. Words, spoken or written by good academicians containing thoughts, are always open-ended that make you deliberate upon the same, with which you can agree or disagree, but your engagement with them makes the same more enriching through vāda/वाद (debates, dialogues, and discussions), the corollary of which might be the possibility of making a contribution from your side to this process and leave further more space for the ones whom you teach.
Thank you Professor for the lessons you have taught.
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