3635. Educating Great People in Class: Some Try

 We may be teachers, okay? We may also be educators. But do we know what to educate is? Well, maybe we already know it, or know something about it. 

Where I want to aim? Educating is getting the best from my students, yet also it is getting the best to them. 

Some people say kind of, Well, we have to get the best from those learners. Yep, but also we have to take knowledge and other things to them. 

Otherwise we will not obtain the best from them. 

This seems clear in children’s case: we can try and get the best from them, but alike we have to provide knowledge and others to them, because they were born with no knowledge at all. 

Spanish philosopher and pedagogue Gregorio Luri puts it in that way: the teacher has to provide knowledge to their students. 

It doesn’t seem sound to get some children into a classroom and naively try and get the best from them, like they already were wise people. 

Let’s give them knowledge and other things. For that we created our schools. 

Those other things are… like values, civil and moral values – in accordance with their parents, for it’s them the first educators. Plus ways of learning, of thinking, of working, of team-working, of solving problems, of writing essays, of reading books, of… a rather long etcetera. 

Educating is getting the best from students, and secondly – last but not least – taking and leading them to living their own lives in a way it is adequate of honorable men and women. 

Something more practical? Well, don’t you think the aforesaid stuff has practical points? Anyway, do we think of our dear students when planning our lessons? Do we ever think of them at all? Do we stop to listen to them? To talk with them? I do know some teachers whose students meet around their desks when the class is over so as to talk to their teachers. 

It would not be clever from us teachers not to get the best from our students, and let them stay uncultivated. When they are treated with affection and interest, they respond in a great way, yes sir, they do: you may also be a witness to that. Have a nice day.

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