write short notes on role of teacher by Rabindranath tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore believed that the teacher’s own life, his own search for truth should be such that encourages the student to respect truth and nature. Teaching lessons in the class and giving lectures on ideals and principles is not real education. Education can be successfully imparted by understanding childhood and giving oneself totally in love and union with it. The best education a child can get is in the atmosphere of love, trust and joy. Tagore gave a mantra to teachers – “Don’t try to preach your principles to children, instead give yourself completely in love” (Rabindranath Tagore: Philosophy of Education and Painting, ed. Devi Prasad (New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2007) p. 36). In his discourse on “The Teacher and His Task,” Sri Sathya Sai Baba says that teachers have to cultivate in their own hearts the spirit of sacrifice, the virtues of charity and the awareness of divinity. Then only do they become entitled to cultivate these in the hearts of their children (Sathya Sai Education in Human Values, p.50).