"Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
- Aristotle
The influence of a great teacher is endless, because the impact is transformational and trans-generational.
Drawing from experience, in all the turning points in my life, a great teacher stands stern and is uncompromising at her duty post.
Teachers play more roles than we give them the credit for doing. They teach the subject; they teach the student. The course is often not the problem, it’s the will to learn that’s the real subject. It’s a different skill teaching the unwilling.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear; but when the student is unready, the preacher must appear.
Students who dislike great teachers the most are precisely those who need moulding the most.
It’s him who appreciates teachers’ vital roles, the teachable and malleable, who grows in respect and usefulness, who makes the most positive impact in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about a great teacher, “The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.”
A great teacher loves herself, her subject and her students. She inspires the will to learn.
Great teachers treat their students as customers. The truly satisfied customers lives on to perpetuate scholastic spirit.
Clifton Fadiman wrote that,
The great teacher performs certain actions, says certain things that create another teacher. This other teacher is the one hidden inside the student. When the master teacher is finished, the new professor inside the youngster takes over, and with any luck, the process of education continues....
This is the bit I carry the capacity to send today.
Until then, this is your friend, and fellow passenger, along the path to personal progress and happiness.
©iphenom
Please,
Be of good cheer.
Be happy.
Be fulfilled.
Be grateful.
Be blessed.