Joy of teaching

Like all other living beings, man struggles for existence. He wishes to lead his life in the light of his knowledge of himself and the world. He gets pleasure and utmost satisfaction for matching his desires. His rationales make any work is worth joyful for him. Although in any profession he gets monetary supports yet joy lives in the heart of his philosophy of life. It is impossible to live without a metaphysic. Man himself and society together woven this net.

Teaching is a social process in which both get joy and pleasure teacher and his pupil. There is a saying –“bread baked without love is a bitter bread that feeds but half a man’s hunger,”-those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow half- hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. If you are a teacher who would rather be a businessman, your instructions will meet but half the need for the knowledge of your students.  

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”  No one can determine and draw a line during this joyful learning journey i.e. teaching. The rewards of teaching are innumerable. You have the opportunity to be amidst hundreds of young bubbling lives. For many, their work is a means to an end but teaching is a vocation and not a job. It gives a sense of service. Every teacher can experience the joy of making a difference in young lives. While teachers spend time nurturing children, they also find personal fulfilment doing something they truly love and are passionate about. 

All above said is true only when teacher is autonomous. But unfortunately joy of teaching curbed by our system. We expect from a school teacher that he maintain a logical distance from his pupils. It is believed that it is necessary to create instructive atmosphere. We often see in many schools and college’s teacher has a separate chair and desk with a distance from students. It is well taught in our teachers training institutes. Blackboard mostly comes under the influence of teacher.  The purpose of teacher’s training in-services or pre- services is how to make a lesson plan and effective ways to deliver it to the students. In our classrooms asking questions from teachers is a rare phenomenon. Teacher is supposed to encourage asking questions but the pattern and nature of questions is already decided by teachers. Generally at the end of his period teacher asked –“shall I repeat something?” “IS everything is clear to you?”  Etc.   There is no scope for new direction and possibilities .By chance if such out of box questions comes, it is shrugged off smartly. It is decided outside school what is to be taught? And how is to be?    Teacher became a carrier of these social feuds.

The ability of construct knowledge through an interplay of rational principle and sensory output of human being make human superiors to other living beings. Teaching is continuous learning, learning for sharing. The single point motivation of teaching is to learn, hunger of learning make you teacher and teacher gets joyful journey of his life.

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