Teachers are taught throughout their teaching lives to unlearn their learning as well as re-learn all that they seek to teach to the 'taught' pupils ...Whatever be the stream ,whichever be the stage of education ,the Teachers find that Education is a continuously continuing continuous process ...I for one have always been privileged to be taught 'well' by teachers throughout my Academic career and to be regarded in high esteem by all those I impart my 'teachings'...One's best teachers of course are one's parents [in the formative years ,especially] as in my instance and then as one steps into the wide real world outside , it is the World itself which teaches the entrant of the 'harsh','bitter' realities of the true and unfair-seeming universal ways of thoughts, life and styles which prevail outside and away from one's home domain ...!!
As one grows wiser in life with the passage of Time , one discovers that the World is itself the best teacher of all while Life itself becomes the real Workshop of learning-processes...To ones whose Mind evolves fairly ahead of others,GOD ALMIGHTY is the Master Teacher indeed...I attest to this testimony of Mankind...!!
Child they say is the father of Man but I would say that the Father [and the Mother]of a Child is indeed the one who ought to behave as the Father and Teacher of the child rather than follow the trend of most unwitting folk in recent times to be led and swayed by the fanciful whims and fanciful notions of the 'unlearned' innocent [and often ignorant] child 's demands - indeed,wild demands invariably lead to perilous results...!!
I would however step a plane higher and submit that one's bestest and constantly concerned Teacher is one's own Self .Irrespective of what is one's orientation ,bearings and 'take' on Life as well as the goals ought to be accomplished in a lifetime,each and every one of us sane,sensible and thinking minds should introspect ,think ,evaluate as well as analyze the role,responsibilities and duties of Oneself towards different relationships in the World we live in and lead an ever Happy, Humble and Fruitful life filled with Learning and Luminosity .Only such an endeavour would make our sojourn meaningful and human.Or else, we are as anonymous in our existence as the fruitfly or the cactus plant in the wild desertland...!1
Teachers are noble ; Nobility is a virtue of all Teachers .But ,can all be teachers or are indeed all teachers noble? - it is the moot question over which one and all of us ought to give adequate thought with a cool and dispassionate sense of purpose in order to ensure that the Flame of Learning be passed on to future generations failing which the extermination of all Mankind is a definite event ,sooner than later ,in a world bereft of Religion and Wisdom ;Patience or Tolerance ;Compassion and Missionary-zeal...!!
Light the Flame ; do not douse the zest for Learning in Life...!!!
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we hv a saying in German: even learning fm someone - how not to do it - is already a lesson achieved... we all teach - even the most miserable creature - and we all learn - some easier - some the hard way - also teachers will learn - they have to - if they wish to advance - and even Earth learns fm us and we - we should make the effort to learn fm Earth as well. however we do it - we never stop learning/teaching - as my boyfriend says: a teacher learns and students teach - i.e. it is vice versa... yes - i love my boyfriend for this insight - and not for this one, only :) God bless you :)
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