Introduction

This poem speaks about a child’s love and curiosity for his/her teacher. Teachers are just
next to superbeings for children.They can’t imagine that teachers are also ordinary human
beings.
Summary
For young kids, a teacher is an extraordinarily special person.
It is difficult for a small child to accept that a teacher is also any common man or woman
living around him. The child wonders and questions if teachers also behave like other
people, If they also do all the work or things, other people do? Like do they live in houses, do
they wear pyjamas (clothes), wash socks or watch T.V? Do they also have parents and
children to live with? All these questions bother a child’s mind and out of curiosity, one day
the child decides to follow his teachers to keep a check  and to write a poem about them so
that the teachers read that poem to their students.It shows the cuteness, purity, curiosity
and dilemma a young mind has for his teachers. It also shows their expectations from
teachers.
 

 
Poem Explanation
Where do all the teachers go
When it’s four o’clock?
Do they live in houses
And do they wash their socks?
The child wonders and questions where all the teachers go after school hours. When it is 4 0’
clock. He wants to know if like any other ordinary being they also live in houses and wash their
socks, means do they also do all the routine work like other people.
Do they wear pyjamas
And do they watch TV?
And do they pick their noses
The same as you and me?
pyjamas here is used for clothes
pick their noses; an activity to waste time, poking and inserting finger in the nose to clear
boogers means dried mucus
The child wants to know if teachers also wear clothes like pyjamas and watch TV like them? Do
they also clean their noses the way other people do and waste their time?
Do they live with other people
Have they mums and dads?
And were they ever children
And were they ever bad?
Further, the child wonders by asking if they are also surrounded by people? If they also have
parents and children like us to live with? Did they commit any mistakes or did anything wrong
when they were children?
Did they ever, never spell right
Did they ever make mistakes?
Were they punished in the corner
If they pinched the chocolate flakes?
Now he wants to know if they also made mistakes or were ever punished for stealing chocolates
Or doing any silly or naughty?
Did they ever lose their hymn books
Did they ever leave their greens?
Did they scribble on the desk tops
Did they wear old dirty jeans?
Hymn books: religious books
Scribbling: draw or write something that is not readable
The tender mind is also bothered to know if their teachers also ever lost their religious books and
said no to green vegetables. Did they also waste time by scribbling on tables and wear torn and
old jeans.
I’ll follow one back home today
I’ll find out what they do
Then I’ll put it in a poem
That they can read to you.
To overcome his curiosity the child decides to follow or spy his teacher on his way home after
school. Once he is clear about everything, he would also like to compose or write a poem about it
and thinks that the teacher would read that poem to his students.