The art of facing the challenges of teaching
How the passion, vision, commitment and the willingness to change help teachers to mentor the students? Anitha Mabel Manohar, Director, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai shares the mantra Teachers are candles. When Ms Anitha Mabel Manohar, Director, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai began her interaction with the teachers of the Velammal Fraternity, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day on September 5, it was not the opening of a run-of-the-mill motivational speech. She had much more to share, to guide the teachers into a new world. Teaching has no age, but it is a huge challenge to be a teacher, she said, referring to the willpower of a nonagenarian woman who was passionate about teaching even at that age. It was the same passion, vision and commitment that took Ms Manohar to the heights of her career. Ms Manohar had her PhD from Avinashilingam University for Women before joining the NIFT. She was successful in turning around the institution and transformin