In a radical departure from my usual style of boring my enthusiastic readers with unbearably long blogs, I will cut a long short story short and quote a minuscule chapter of my life. Ever since I was introduced to trigonometry, it was a pain for those good people who tried to teach me the subject. Thankfully for me, some intelligent guy had devised a unique method to make life easier for dumb brains like mine. It goes something like this-"Some People Have, Curly Brown Hair, Turn Permanently Black" where S stands for sine, P for perpendicular, H for Hypotenuse and son on.
On an unprecedented situation yesterday, I was tutoring precalculus an African-American kid who was struggling with trigonometry, I decided to teach him one of those Indian styles of remembering things. Just when I was about to utter those golden words, it struck my mind as to what those words would mean for the kid-No less than mockery and racism. Imagine my embarrassment when I withdrew at the last moment, saying that I no longer remember the most fundamental thing in trigonometry.
On an unprecedented situation yesterday, I was tutoring precalculus an African-American kid who was struggling with trigonometry, I decided to teach him one of those Indian styles of remembering things. Just when I was about to utter those golden words, it struck my mind as to what those words would mean for the kid-No less than mockery and racism. Imagine my embarrassment when I withdrew at the last moment, saying that I no longer remember the most fundamental thing in trigonometry.
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9 comments:
lol.. would have been nice if you would have been beaten by your pupil ;) None the less am relieved that i dont have to pay rent for one less member in our house
maybe soh cah toa is a better option :)
got to learn soh cah toa from the student instead :)
as for mr khanna.. wait till i get home..
now only if our tutors gave us 'globally acceptable' statements to cherish...
You could have taught him the alternative:-
"Peters Horse, Brought Home, Peters Bread"
And I definitely appreciate your attempt at writing shorter blogs.
now that i am too old to learn trigo i get so many innovative techniques.. :D
i guess smaller blogs helps..both to read and write.. objection sustained..
SOHCAHTOA can be sort of racist too. because americans try to look at anything and everything as being racist although they are not the ones who are the most racist. and they are afraid the most. I was taught SOHCAHTOA as the name of a native american girl.
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