3495. For Any Teacher to Become a Good Professional

The main source and resource for the classes is the teacher himself. He can be like a volcano in eruption, or otherwise a peaceful continuous stream down a hill flowing along the prairie ;-)

He is the main tank of activities, and even if he utilizes books, apps and programs, he is like a cinema director that directs the filming and all its details within. Any of you or nearly so can be that teacher, not a super-teacher anyway.

But he must have interior life. He must cultivate his thoughts, ideas and imaginations. And so he should have time available for thinking. Otherwise also his mental skills will make him make good use of the scarce time available. 

He will for example join one thought over here to another one, one more over there to this one, a luminous idea that occurs right in the middle of teaching a lesson, perhaps when one student is contributing to the class… 

Such great teachers have done so along the teaching history. Any of you can be that teacher. Over time.

What teachers can we best recall from our learning years as students? Maybe not very very brilliant teachers, perseverant ones though. 

Right now I can recall one who had no misbehavior problems in his classes at high school, and all in him was gentle and clever smiling, pulchritude in his attire and a big concerning about each student in the classroom. 

He was great. Just great because he was so concerned about each one of his students then. And we were teen students, and some of my peers in the classroom could be so rude, yet tremendous. Have a nice week. Oh, and he DID know a lot about the subject he taught us. Over time.

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