Passage 18

In English

must make a special mention about the type of students He taught. These students were really adults; some even had moustaches! would come wearing shorts; yet, all these grown-up people would stand up as a mark of respect. In the beginning, they used to address as ‘’ but soon they began to say ‘Sir!’. There was no chair for the teacher; so, a big, nice stone was brought, covered with cloth, and this became the chair. The students had no slates to write on. therefore asked them to bring sand from the River and spread it in the ‘classroom’ before the places where the students sat. The sand thus became the slate! used to write the alphabets, starting in the traditional manner with ‘’.