Challenges in life render you an opportunity in disguise to rise and shine.
Challenges in life render you an opportunity in disguise to rise and shine.
Gajendra Purohit is the esteemed director of the science department at Pacific University. He is also a top educator on Unacademy and a YouTuber known for sharing simple educational content for students. Gajendra has over 15 years of experience in the teaching field.
Gajendra completed his schooling in a rural area in Pratapgarh, and then he acquired his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees. Soon after that, he commenced his teaching career at a primary school. Gajendra feels that if any teacher is able to teach primary students or understand their problems and queries, then he or she will be able to teach students of any grade at any of the institutions. After that, Gajendra assumed multiple teaching positions at different educational institutes, ultimately joining Pacific University.
Throughout his life, Gajendra witnessed several obstacles, but with the utmost determination, he overcame them and achieved success and stability. He feels that struggle is a very important part of everyone's life, and if we rectify our mistakes and take lessons from them, then we get better results in our lives.
To the aspiring teachers, Gajendra states that it is necessary to be updated with knowledge and have a keen sense of teaching. He also says that teaching in a school and teaching in a college are different things because both require different levels of accumulated knowledge and, along with that, a unique and suitable demeanor to handle the students.
Gajendra is constantly working to build a better society by offering career counseling to his students and uploading lectures on digital platforms free of charge to extend education to those students who are not financially well. He has also started an initiative for middle-class students pursuing engineering, where he contributes his knowledge and resources to make education more accessible and feasible.
Gajendra feels that in life, it is very important to have both education and experience because education or a degree is only a license to deliver your experience or knowledge to others. Gajendra says that leadership is a skill that is learned through experience and struggle in life, so leadership also comes with age. He feels that he incorporates some unique leadership qualities, which is why he was able to gain the trust and confidence of his co-workers and guide them to achieve greater things and better results.
According to Gajendra, the COVID lockdown has been a positive thing for him. He says that in the COVID phase, he learned several new things and acquired multiple new skills. As a YouTuber, he also learned to self-shoot his videos and brushed up on his software skills.