SOME VIEWS ABOUT TEACHERS

 

 

 

                             SOME VIEWS  ABOUT TEACHERS

1. Even a thousand teachers cannot take the place of a mother.
2. Great teachers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are now rare.
3. Teachers are nation builders; the real instruments of change.
4. The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.
5. The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions , but to kindle minds.
6. The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
7. The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatises , and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Let our teaching be full of ideas.  Hitherto it has been stuffed only with facts.

 POST SCRIPT

Today is 5^th day of September celebrated as Teacher’s day all over India in honour of the birthday of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (5^th September 1888 – 17^th April 1975). Dr. Radhakrishnan  was a great educationist, politician, statesman, philosopher and author.  His books like The Hindu View of Life, The Bhagavadgita, An Idealist View of life, East And West In Religion, Religion And Society,Recovery of Faith, The Principal Upanisads, Eastern Religions and Western Thought, etc., are masterpieces of world literature. He was President of India from 1962-1967. For his massive achievements in literature and statesmanship he won Bharat Ratna Award in 1954.

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G. R. Kanwal