Gone are the days when the teachers used to be revered as Gods. In today's times the teachers and the students are equal partners in the process of teaching and learning. Thanks to the knowledge explosion because of advanced technologies, teachers of today are not a group of professionals who know everything. Children of today are exposed to a lot more things than they used to do earlier and they know things even teachers don't know. So, a teacher has become a facilitator, a guide and a friend who not only teaches but also learns from the students. The teacher also grows in all directions because of the curiosity and the inquisitive attitude of the students.
A teacher's life is full of activity if she or he thinks that it is a great responsibility that God almighty has bestowed on him or her. She has to be loving, just, impartial, fair and compassionate. She has to be strict lest her students go astray and don't grow in a balanced way. She has to listen to a hundred complains each day and act as a psychologist and a counsellor pacifying them , understanding their sentiments and healing their wounds. Her heart shifts in its place seeing any one of her children sick, pale-faced or bleeding.She has to inspire her children each and every day to study, to behave, to be disciplined and good. She has to deal with hundreds of restless, impulsive, talkative and fickle young minds. She has to stand for hours at a stretch and strain her voice to disburse knowledge. She has to find ways to mould the character of a pampered and arrogant child who errs continuously. She has to handle the children who are disabled, shy and subdued. She has to make them laugh, make them study and make them write their lessons.
A teacher is a professional, yes. She works for a salary. But a teacher is also somebody who has unfathomable love for her children that she gives out every day, every minute, from a pure centre, from a pure heart and that love has no price. It is very easy to be a jobholder but it is very difficult to be a teacher, especially in the changing world scenario where every day is a new revolution.
Education has been transformed into a commodity now and the parents are like customers.Educational institutions are mushrooming everyday and there is cut throat competition to market education. Old values and notions are dying and man has become prosaic and materialistic. The teachers fraternity is not held with reverence anymore. The definition of success is being counted in terms of marks. In these difficult times, working under a lot of pressure every moment and trying to strike a balance between delivering the goods and maintaining a value system and a proper standard, the teacher is often sandwiched. Engaged in teaching and evaluation, besides a hundred other related tasks, the life of a teacher is hardly easy. But it is a teacher who is busy grooming our young generation and shaping the future of a country every day.
On the occasion of this teacher's day, let's raise a toast to teachers. Let's wish them good luck. May God help them in sustaining their energy so that they never cease to be what they are; the builders of a generation and the architects of generations to come.
A teacher's life is full of activity if she or he thinks that it is a great responsibility that God almighty has bestowed on him or her. She has to be loving, just, impartial, fair and compassionate. She has to be strict lest her students go astray and don't grow in a balanced way. She has to listen to a hundred complains each day and act as a psychologist and a counsellor pacifying them , understanding their sentiments and healing their wounds. Her heart shifts in its place seeing any one of her children sick, pale-faced or bleeding.She has to inspire her children each and every day to study, to behave, to be disciplined and good. She has to deal with hundreds of restless, impulsive, talkative and fickle young minds. She has to stand for hours at a stretch and strain her voice to disburse knowledge. She has to find ways to mould the character of a pampered and arrogant child who errs continuously. She has to handle the children who are disabled, shy and subdued. She has to make them laugh, make them study and make them write their lessons.
A teacher is a professional, yes. She works for a salary. But a teacher is also somebody who has unfathomable love for her children that she gives out every day, every minute, from a pure centre, from a pure heart and that love has no price. It is very easy to be a jobholder but it is very difficult to be a teacher, especially in the changing world scenario where every day is a new revolution.
Education has been transformed into a commodity now and the parents are like customers.Educational institutions are mushrooming everyday and there is cut throat competition to market education. Old values and notions are dying and man has become prosaic and materialistic. The teachers fraternity is not held with reverence anymore. The definition of success is being counted in terms of marks. In these difficult times, working under a lot of pressure every moment and trying to strike a balance between delivering the goods and maintaining a value system and a proper standard, the teacher is often sandwiched. Engaged in teaching and evaluation, besides a hundred other related tasks, the life of a teacher is hardly easy. But it is a teacher who is busy grooming our young generation and shaping the future of a country every day.
On the occasion of this teacher's day, let's raise a toast to teachers. Let's wish them good luck. May God help them in sustaining their energy so that they never cease to be what they are; the builders of a generation and the architects of generations to come.
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