“Teaching is a profession that teaches all other professions.” I often wonder about teachers who taught for the famous people like Einstien, Abraham Lincoln, JRD TATA and so on. Were these teachers specially qualified to instigate their students to achieve fame and success? Or were these teachers are lucky to have gifted students? Even I know some teachers have rare qualities of turning them into gold?
I remember the words of Jeanette “I think mentors should be role models, but a role model who hasn’t forgotten where s/he came from, how s/he got to where s/he is now and always looking back to see if s/he can help those that came from the very same place”. Teachers have the qualities to become role models for their students. S/He is a creator, a director, a king maker, an artist, a philosopher, a real hero of the society.
Teachers pass on values to children, prepare them for further education and are the main contributor to good education in a society. Teachers create “humans with values” and teach the difference between right and wrong. I believe a real teacher comes about through many years of training and experiences in the field of teaching.
It is frequently said that the three main contributors to shaping our lives is God, our parents and our teachers. Alexander the Great, once said, “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” They are one of the main pillars of a sound and progressive society. They bear the weight and responsibility of teaching and apart from parents; they are the main source of knowledge and values for children.
If there were no teachers, nobody would have known how to read or write. There is no doubt that teachers play an important role in our life, and they are the ones who create engineers and doctors in the first place. There is no other profession that can surpass the teaching profession. Teachers, therefore, rightly hold a position higher than that held by the almighty in the Indian society.
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