Lesson Made Easy!

The dance teacher had a busy schedule and could fit in only brief, sporadic sessions for his new student who was a clumsy dancer, a poor learner, and seldom completed his homework which comprised practising twenty rounds of each new dance move he had been taught.

Each session began with the student performing the steps he had learned in the previous sessions, and the exasperated teacher admonishing him for the poor progress; after which the teacher taught new steps.

Now, do this dance, the teacher asked, after performing a 30-second move.

The pupil’s performance was clumsy as usual, and the unsurprised Master hectored, ‘Be attentive. I’ll demonstrate one last time for you. Repeat it ten times.’

The obedient student did what he was ordered to do, doing a little better each time, but not good enough to satisfy the stern, demanding teacher.

Teacher: How can you be so dumb? Why is it so difficult to do a basic move? It’s really very simple. Just bring your chunmun forward, then take it back fast. Repeat. Like this!

Dance Teacher, just promoted to KG II, was teaching his grandpa the pelvic thrust, so ubiquitous in hot Bollywood dance numbers; a move he had recently learned at the Dance School he attends twice a week after school, homework, and before evening tuition!

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