Gratitude To Great Teachers In My Life
Today, on September 5, we are celebrating Teacher’s Day in India to honor the contribution of teachers in our lives, and to commemorate the birth anniversary of former President Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
I take this opportunity to thank all my teachers. They have played an important role to mould me into who I am today. Great respect for all of them.
In my journey from kinder-garden to my post-graduation, the teachers are not the only ones I met.
All those who came my way to teach me life lessons are also considered teachers in my experience. In fact, while my academic teachers taught me how to survive, all the others I met taught me life lessons.
The current education system is mostly teaching and preaching. While it should have been really to educate, which is to bring out the wisdom of the person.
Our Culture
Our culture in India is to bring out the true potential of the student. And for what the acharya or the teacher rightly identifies the child’s IKIGAI, we respect them.
These days, I wonder if the teachers can really work so closely and dedicatedly as those days. There are limitations in the time spent with the child is not as much as it used to be.
Parents & Teachers
It is a combined effort of the parents and the teachers to bring out the best in the student.
Parents encourage children to respect the teacher and follow their instructions, teachers take the responsibility of creating the next generation of leaders in mind while educating.
Many students are afraid or bored or even reluctant to go to school. Why is one of the important questions parents and teachers need to work together and make it a great experience for children to explore education as a fun way of learning and imbibing in the first go? Why is our education system only focusing on memorizing and vomiting? So we then need this kind of education at all?
Are We Producing Slaves Or Leaders?
In the British colonial system, people were threatened with punishments if they didn’t do anything properly or didn’t complete to ask, which was a way of getting things done out of fear.
Leaders are not born with this method. Only slaves will be manufactured from the system.
India is celebrating 75 years of independence, yet are we really independent of the system of threats and punishments? Should our children also go through the same? should we produce more slaves for the factory of corporates?
Need Of The Hour For Leaders
In fact, as we groom leaders instead, the world will see a better supportive system of inclusiveness, higher thought processes, and how the economy can see revolutionary changes.
Keeping pace with time and adaptability is the need of the hour.
Let us create leaders!
Happy Teachers’ Day!