Who is a teacher?

 Who is a teacher?

Do you consider yourself, a teacher and others, your students? If yes, then you are not a teacher.

Have you learnt enough to be a teacher?

Have you stopped learning after being a teacher?

If yes, you are not a teacher.

Have you forgotten to be a student after being a teacher? If yes, you are not a teacher.

Have you turned deaf to the new possibilities in the arena of explanation? If yes, you are not a teacher.

Have you never tried to break free from tradition?

If yes, you are not a teacher.

Have you confined your students to the mear books? If yes, you are not a teacher.

Have you threatened your students with your appalling personality? If yes, you are not a teacher.

Have you guided your students only through the realm of curriculum?

If yes, I am afraid, you are not a teacher.

Enough of negativity. Let’s make the discourse little jovial.

As a teacher ,one should not consider himself a teacher and others his students. He is a guide, a philosopher, to show the right direction, to generate the necessary inspiration to tread the path of truth and and undeluded knowledge.

No teacher is qualified enough to call himself a teacher. He is a student , constantly learning and if he has the prerogative to share his learning with anyone, he is merely a guide , not a teacher.

No teacher affords to stop learning. If he does so, he becomes like a stagnated, rotten pond, without any flow , without any productivity.

No teacher is a teacher who doesn’t consider himself to be a student . As, if he does so, his vainglory and false ego speak, not his learning which has to be expanded, only being a student.

A teacher who is orthodox and regressive in his traditional approach to explanation is not amenable to the new possibilities. He then harms himself , not his students who will learn, in any way, through other reliable sources.

A teacher who teaches within a prison can never succeed in his goal , if he doesn’t go out with the students to the open space in the vicinity of nature and real situations which are the best of all teachers.

A teacher who scares his students , dominates his students with his shout and stick , fails to become a friend, a psychoanalyst to his students.

A teacher who teaches only what is in the curriculum fails , as he should teach art of life, morality and ethics of life, values of life, the economic social and political aspects of life, with which only , a student of his will taste the sweet fruit of success prosperity and idealism.

So let us stop being a teacher ;

let us begin being a student ;

let us learn as a student;

let us share our learning as a guide , not as a teacher.

Laxman Sah