31 March 2008

Each teacher should be passionate about his work

A teacher full of passion for his work and sympathy will interest the children and make their school life a pleasant one. Children are very eager to learn and if a teacher cannot interest them and make them love their lessons, he is not fit to be a teacher and should choose another profession.A sympathetic teacher draws out all the good qualities in his pupils,and his gentleness prevents them from being afraid of him. Each student then shows himself just as he is, and the teacher is able to see the line best suited to him and to help him to follow it. To such a teacher a child will come with all his difficulties, knowing that he will be met with sympathy and kindness, and, instead of hiding his weaknesses, he will be glad to tell everything to one of whose caring help he is sure. The good teacher should remember his own youth, so he can feel sympathetic with the student who comes to him. This consideration of the teacher for his students, in helping them, willbring out best from the child in turn, and as he looks up to his teacherthis care will take the form of reverence. Reverence, beginning in this way with the boy, will grow as he grows older, and will become his natural habit in life.

2 March 2008

The importance of a good teacher

No person ought to be a teacher, ought to be allowed to be aTeacher, unless he/she has shown in his daily life that respect for others and patience are the strongest quality of his/her nature. Just as a boy shows his natural capacities at an early age for one profession or another, so a particularly strong love-nature would mark a boy out as specially fitted to be an instructor.
Such boys should be definitely trained for the office of the teacher.
Children who are preparing for all careers live a common life in the sameschool, and they can only become useful to the nation, if theirschool life is happy. A young child is naturally happy, and if that happiness is allowed to go on and grow in the school, and at home, then he will become a person who will make others happy.