Like majority of students, me too have been greatly affected by my teachers as per my interest in a particular subject is concerned. But I was largely affected by my grandfather, especially in case of mathematics, who was a mathematics teacher. Though they had never been my class teacher, still they always had greater impact than my class teachers in producing my interest in this subject.
Starting from the middle school, I have always been a remarkable student of mathematics and the credit goes to my class teachers as well as largely to my grandfather with whom I think I used to spend much of my time after being home. As per whatever I remember of my old school days, I had always been affected positively by teachers who employ practical teaching aids. Even in high school I had great teachers who added a lot to my interest in mathematics and the result was always clear from my grades.
As I entered in secondary level of education both my grades and interest starts degrading. Major reason was my senior secondary mathematics teacher who always followed theoretical and lethargic teaching methodology. She do problem by herself without explaining us and ask us to memorize those problems as it is. Her class has no enthusiasm and makes me sleep in her class. In starting, I tried to ask her question and she was so rude to me and I never tried again to ask her again in class. I lost my interest in mathematics. But thanks to my grandfather who identified the root cause of my degraded performance and helped me to regain my original interest. He started putting extra efforts for me at home and used his experience and his enthusiastic and practical way of teaching. And finally once again, after regaining my degraded (if not totally lost) interest in mathematics, I chosen mathematics at graduation level and really enjoyed it till now. So, as far as I am concerned, I faced a little dip in my interest in mathematics, because of my secondary level teacher, but my grandfather had always been there for me.
One thing I learned from that experience is that never be rude to students. It discourages them. They will never come back to you and start hating that subject.
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