Essay on relationship between teacher and student at present positive on guru purnima
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and questioning atmosphere.
The modern student-teacher relationship is not defined by obedience and acceptance, but by questioning and analysis, acceptance may or may not follow. The relationship is of understanding each other's requirements and coming to terms with each other's expectations.
The new set of students has all information, if not wisdom, at the click of a button; they test, verify and often question what a teacher says in the classroom from facts available on the internet. Sometimes, it also leads them to believe that the teachers are redundant. There's a lot to be said, firstly about the credibility of the information provided by net, secondly the child's ability to sieve the information for his purpose and his level of understanding.
However, the role of a teacher, as a mentor to channelize, filter and adapt this information to a child's level of understanding cannot be undermined, let alone be ruled out.
Of course, the change in perspective with the education as commodity, teacher as a service provider and the parent as client has lead to a loss of respect among the students. The respect, which was integral to the classroom atmosphere, has simply flown out of the window. But nonetheless, the students who come from culturally sound background where values are inculcated right from the infancy and teachers who upgrade themselves to the state of art methods and understanding of teaching will be able to create an environment congenial enough to facilitate a rewarding teaching-learning process.
What really has to be done is perhaps infuse the system back with the values which we think of as ancient. I have always believed that a child who hasn't been groomed to value his teachers grows up to be a person who won't respect his parents or their elders.
The teacher-student relationship is a very inclusive and it requires both parties to meet each other halfway. However, the onus is more on the teachers. The modern scenario has more teachers for whom teaching isn't vocation but an occupation. It is reflected in their impersonal and commercial approach towards their students. We need more teachers who are teachers by choice and not by default.
The improvement of relationship actually requires an overhauling of the entire mindset. To understand the change required, we need to go back to the roots and to retrospect and realize that if guru was more important than Govind, it was because he stood as an epitome of knowledge. They were Vishnu Sharmas, who would ensure that information is translated into wisdom and knowledge.
The need of the hour is for society to try and bring back the guru-shishya parampara, though with a modern touch, where the guru is an epitome of knowledge and ethics as well as loving and caring, while the shishya should be a willing learner, respectful and regard the teacher as a beacon who would lead him on the right path; the realization among people that when you ask a teacher 'What do you make?' the answer won't be in figures such as Rs3 lakh per annum, it would be in nouns such as doctors, engineers or whatever you want your children to be. It is the teacher who makes them all.
The modern student-teacher relationship is not defined by obedience and acceptance, but by questioning and analysis, acceptance may or may not follow. The relationship is of understanding each other's requirements and coming to terms with each other's expectations.
The new set of students has all information, if not wisdom, at the click of a button; they test, verify and often question what a teacher says in the classroom from facts available on the internet. Sometimes, it also leads them to believe that the teachers are redundant. There's a lot to be said, firstly about the credibility of the information provided by net, secondly the child's ability to sieve the information for his purpose and his level of understanding.
However, the role of a teacher, as a mentor to channelize, filter and adapt this information to a child's level of understanding cannot be undermined, let alone be ruled out.
Of course, the change in perspective with the education as commodity, teacher as a service provider and the parent as client has lead to a loss of respect among the students. The respect, which was integral to the classroom atmosphere, has simply flown out of the window. But nonetheless, the students who come from culturally sound background where values are inculcated right from the infancy and teachers who upgrade themselves to the state of art methods and understanding of teaching will be able to create an environment congenial enough to facilitate a rewarding teaching-learning process.
What really has to be done is perhaps infuse the system back with the values which we think of as ancient. I have always believed that a child who hasn't been groomed to value his teachers grows up to be a person who won't respect his parents or their elders.
The teacher-student relationship is a very inclusive and it requires both parties to meet each other halfway. However, the onus is more on the teachers. The modern scenario has more teachers for whom teaching isn't vocation but an occupation. It is reflected in their impersonal and commercial approach towards their students. We need more teachers who are teachers by choice and not by default.
The improvement of relationship actually requires an overhauling of the entire mindset. To understand the change required, we need to go back to the roots and to retrospect and realize that if guru was more important than Govind, it was because he stood as an epitome of knowledge. They were Vishnu Sharmas, who would ensure that information is translated into wisdom and knowledge.
The need of the hour is for society to try and bring back the guru-shishya parampara, though with a modern touch, where the guru is an epitome of knowledge and ethics as well as loving and caring, while the shishya should be a willing learner, respectful and regard the teacher as a beacon who would lead him on the right path; the realization among people that when you ask a teacher 'What do you make?' the answer won't be in figures such as Rs3 lakh per annum, it would be in nouns such as doctors, engineers or whatever you want your children to be. It is the teacher who makes them all.
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