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 Influencing eachother! Today my happiness knew no bounds! It occurs in life when we learn from our students. Often it seems teachers influence students and is considered one sided. I have felt the other way. Teachers are in turn influenced by students. Here, at Malappuram girls often get married at the younger age. There was a time when getting married determined the finishing point of women's education. It's a long lost custom, I would say. A married woman with children do tremendous hardwork that they idealize sky as not the limit for flying. Wives and mothers have extra hands and triple energy to practice multitasking and they outshine if they are students.  Whenever I have felt tired and energy drained, it's text message from such mother- students persuade to do more. Why I thought of sharing this message this day is because the day is indeed special for me, being a teacher. My student, yes, my student crossed one of the inevitable and pivotal barriers to Higher Educat