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I don’t consider it a coincidence, Simply enough you send the message to the universe and you get it back. I was talking about a similar issue this afternoon with a colleague.
To begin with I like to make it clear that the education is nothing but what makes the education, “Us People” and to go even further the tools and and and the instruments that turn that theory into practice is again nothing but “Us People”. Sad enough to say that we teachers are the most powerful instruments among others.
If as a teacher I recognize my role in the system and really dedicate my self to what I have taken a my career then my fellow colleague feel the same, the chain effect will goes on showing the result. What are the things that I should dedicate myself to? Well to understand this you need to look back and see if you really are made or born as they say to be teacher.
It is not that I simply go to my class grab a lesson plan and finish my teaching assigning homework happily leave the class. Wrong, and when I say wrong I mean it with a capital W.
This is what most of the so-called teachers do and the result is not hard to imagine, students hating teachers, education, and teachers hating teaching and education, and they don’t realize that what they hate is the result of what they have made.
I can’t show how much this quote by Haim Ginott turn my view tremendously and I always have it at the back of my mind
I have come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a person’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a person humanized or de-humanized.
When I understand that I am in the class not only to cover some pages and teach , but also to have a great and positive effect on my students to push them an inch forward in the direction of humanity and growth, when I understand that the most important thing I, as a teacher, should do is to teach my students the precious values of life and behavior. what am I doing? isn’t it a great leap into a better education? Isn’t it the purpose of education? Are we aware of that? do we consider ourselves a powerful instrument that can shape the future?
A mother once asked Gandhi to get her son to stop eating sugar. Gandhi told the child to come back in two weeks. Two weeks later the mother brought the child before Gandhi. Gandhi said to the boy, “ Stop eating sugar.” Puzzled, the woman replied, “ Thank you, but I must ask why you didn’t tell him that two weeks ago.” Gandhi replied, “ Two weeks ago I was eating sugar.”
I said that because I believe the majority of teachers are not aware of what their purpose is in the system of education. When I take one step forward to understand myself, my goal in teaching, and how powerful and effective I can be in the system of education, apart from numerous problems we have regarding finance. then we can understand the purpose of education and transfer it to people sitting in front of us.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
