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How Covid-19 Rekindled The Spirit Of Teaching, Nayha Acharya Jan 2020

How Covid-19 Rekindled The Spirit Of Teaching, Nayha Acharya

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The abrupt end to our classes in the middle of March 2020 due to the Covid-19 situation reignited in me the real sense of what it means to be a teacher. It brought me out of the superficial notion, where being a law professor just means being someone who has students who will listen to me talk about the law, and into the deeper sense - that being a teacher involves a very special human relationship. This transition arose in me, I believe, because the Covid-19 situation forced me to slow down and sit still for a while, and that …