Teacher’s Day Special: ‘Be a teacher in someone’s life and teach them something valuable’

By Gayatri Pradhan

Teachers day should not be celebrated once in a year but it should be celebrated each and every day. Why should we give importance to teachers only one day if teachers give us importance each and everyday to help us flourish and excel in life can’t we give them importance and respect every day and the amount of pain they take for us to make us best we can never repay them but by being the best in the field we are growing we can repay them in this form this is what a teacher wants that their taught student are doing big something good and the most important they turned out to be a good human being.

T – Teachers are the one who transmit knowledge; E – Encourage Students; A– Assess student in the best manner; C – Cultivate critical thinking in the mind of students; H– Focus on Holistic development of student; E – Embrace diversity within students; and R – turns out to be role model and mentor for their students.

Apart from being a teacher they also become our friend and family after family they are the one with whom we spent our most of the time and they become irreplaceable in our life. “Parents are the First Teachers in children’s life, but their school and college teachers are the second parents.’’ Teachers play a secondary yet significant role, building upon the foundation laid by parents and providing additional guidance, knowledge and support during the child’s educational journey.

One student should never forget his/her teacher’s contribution in life because they are the one who make us who we are our whole life and theirs a wonderful quote which Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad said “A good teacher is like a candle; it consumes itself to light the way for others.’’ Means just like a candle burns its own wax to Produce light, a good teacher “Burns” their own energy and resources to enlighten their students. This quote highlights the selfless and nurturing nature of a good teacher, who prioritises their students learning and growth above their own interest. Teacher is like a big tree who selflessly give his fruits to human birds and animals to eat allow the birds to make their nest in his branches and let all the animals and humans take shade under him when they get tired and want some rest.

Each and every thing around us teach us something valuable like from sun we should learn its universality the sun shines for everyone, regardless of their background or circumstances, promoting unity and equality we should never do partiality and treat everyone equally. From birds we should learn their hard work and consistency how they wake up so early and start searching for food and come back to their nest after all the hard work they never complain and repeat the same routine and never gets late. From Cheetah we should learn patience although they are fast runners, they spend most of the time waiting and stalking for prey, demonstrating patience and waiting for the right opportunity. From Squirrel we should learn playfulness its playful nature reminds us to have fun and enjoy life’s moments. From snake we should learn Resilience how snake shed their skin, showing us that we can shed our old selves and emerge new. So, all these things in nature teach something or the other and become teacher in our life everyone is teacher in our life because someone who comes in our life and teach us something they become our teacher they don’t need any qualification to become teacher everyone has something in them which teach us something and we can learn from them for our betterment. Be a teacher in someone’s life and teach them something valuable.