India, Nov. 3 -- Once upon a time, passion was the holy grail of teaching. "Love your subject," they said. "Pour your heart into it," they urged. And so, teachers did. They adored their subjects, lived and breathed them - until that very love began to suffocate their creativity, flexibility, and sometimes, their sanity. Today, as education races through the digital age, one can't help but wonder: has our obsession with passion begun to strangle the art of great teaching itself? Picture the archetypal passionate teacher - eyes gleaming, voice quivering with enthusiasm, overflowing with facts and faith that their subject is the centre of the intellectual universe. A noble image, yes, until that passion turns classrooms into pulpits and lesson...