“The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.”
No...I didn’t come up with that. It was from William Arthur Ward.
Teaching is a noble but a tiring profession. Ask any teacher and they'll agree with a simple but heartfelt frown. To teach another is being altruistic. A taught person is akin to a joyous face of a felicitous child. Never a doubt ever. Teaching is never beating about the bush either though it is viewed by many as mundane but the effort put together is halo titanic.
Our learning growth starts the very first day we’re sent to face our nemesis - our teachers in schools while our parents grow their imaginary dreams of wanting their kids to achieve greatness.
In short, someone said, “All mothers would have gone to the asylum if not for the teachers who took their kids in.” How so well said. Each time I think of it I remember my times as a student and how we as students learned everything and anything the hardest way ever devised or invented by man. Even if I were to put down here my trails of mayhem and fun I had in school, you would never in a million years believe me.
It all starts with a teacher in a classroom from the day we put on our uniforms, shoulder our schoolbags and walk into a room full of wooden chairs and tables to get the most priceless gift ever - EDUCATION.
This is also the day we come to know our lifelong journey is put to torture and mayhem. Teachers, not parents are the ones who spark off the “brain-revolution” in us. Sadly, during the times when I went to school, teachers were the devils. The nemesis. Tho' I still have reservations, many teachers have left me amazed, inspired, some showed me what pain is and one showed me the way to the stars. (Yes one. May he rest in peace). Some have left me breathless and some have made me do the unthinkable while scourging them aimlessly. Well! then I was a student. Never knew what teaching was until I became a teacher for while.
In short, someone said, “All mothers would have gone to the asylum if not for the teachers who took their kids in.” How so well said. Each time I think of it I remember my times as a student and how we as students learned everything and anything the hardest way ever devised or invented by man. Even if I were to put down here my trails of mayhem and fun I had in school, you would never in a million years believe me.
It all starts with a teacher in a classroom from the day we put on our uniforms, shoulder our schoolbags and walk into a room full of wooden chairs and tables to get the most priceless gift ever - EDUCATION.
This is also the day we come to know our lifelong journey is put to torture and mayhem. Teachers, not parents are the ones who spark off the “brain-revolution” in us. Sadly, during the times when I went to school, teachers were the devils. The nemesis. Tho' I still have reservations, many teachers have left me amazed, inspired, some showed me what pain is and one showed me the way to the stars. (Yes one. May he rest in peace). Some have left me breathless and some have made me do the unthinkable while scourging them aimlessly. Well! then I was a student. Never knew what teaching was until I became a teacher for while.
Today, teachers are a far cry from their predecessors. A school can be turned into war zone among students and teachers. Teachers now demand more pay then ever. Back in my time, the school was the police station and the teachers were the law. None would argue or take a teacher to task. And there're teachers who work for salary and nothing else.
Einstein once said, "It's the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge". So true.
Teachers are the columns of nation building. Without them, where do we lay the roof?
They're so many quotes on teachers, the memories, the quintessence of a person imparting knowledge aimlessly to another and the humility towards the art and profession of learning. Without them, I couldn't have been here. No way. A profession so noble but scarce in recognition.
Teachers all, I thank you dearly.
And to all teachers out there ...HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY.
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