Savage

There’s the regular meaning of the word, “savage”. And then there’s the other meaning of the word:

“When something or someone is "savage," it is "viciously cool.”

 

When a kid in class asked my 11 yo daughter’s English teacher to move a bit (so he could copy what she’d written on the blackboard), she snapped back, “If I move away from the board, who will write the words you are copying?”. Methinks she did have a valid point.

 

Another time, in the same teacher’s class, some kid announced (without rhyme or reason) that he was a nerd. The girl next to him asked, “What is a nerd?”. Upon which, this genius said he didn’t know either! The teacher decided to educate the class on the meaning of the word. “A nerd”, she said, “is a kid who thinks they know everything, takes out their book, and then keeps staring at the teacher instead of looking at the book”.

 

Continuing in the spirit of things, a girl then proved she wasn’t a nerd by declaring that she couldn’t find her English book. The teacher oozed sarcasm, “So shall I call the cops? File a report? So they can scan the city for your book?” The class was in splits.

 

The teacher then signed off saying, “I am savage, aren’t I?”.

 

Viciously cool – yes, that describes her perfectly. Remember that saying, यथा राजा तथा प्रजा? I guess in the classroom these days, it’s यथा students तथा teacher.

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