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Being Teachers – by Somabandu Kodikara Two applicants who were being interviewed for a position of teacher in a prestigious school, asked the same question from the interview panel. Both applicants, who were highly experienced in their previous schools, asked ‘How are the students in this school?’ The wise old Principal who was heading the panel asked a counter question from each. ‘How were the students in your previous school?’ The first one said ‘They were horrible. No respect for teachers. No love for education. Just a set of good for nothings and that is why I left the school’. The Principal said, ‘O! The students here are the same’. The second applicant said ‘The students were adorable. They were cultured, disciplined and eager to learn. It is only due to circumstances beyond my control that I had to leave the school’. The Principal said ‘Ah! The students here are ...