3651. Do Our Students Ever Think?

 I know that you want to become a good teacher. One who makes his or her students think, right? 

This latter thing may seem obvious, but do our dear students really think? Do they invest all their cleverness capabilities upon learning in the best possible way? 

In order to achieve our dear students would think, and more if they are kids, we have to teach them how to think. If they settle down to study their books, we may be heading in the right direction. 

We as teachers may think in a loud voice, say, to teach them to think, in class. 

I was remembering that when I taught kids at the first school where I began to teach, we had, in accordance to their parents, there in the nineties of last century, a plan for educating them. It was not one more school subject, like math or literature or biology, but they were weekly sessions about topics where we made them think: ethics, how to solve problems, virtues and values, situations they might face as teens, etcetera. It was just what their families had entrusted us to teach their kids about, as a complement to what they learned at home. 

And they thought, they did indeed. And they participated in class to say the conclusions they were reaching at. 

Anyway, we as teachers have to have our dear students think. 

In no way have we to think kind of, Well, I don’t make my kids – my students – think much, lest they may act intelligently and may surpass me as a teacher. No way, man, they have to think! 

And to think so as to achieve their best way of learning. 

Do our students read books? I mean books in accordance to human dignity and to their parents. Literature, classics, non-fiction as well. 

We also have to make our students learn the best way of precisely learning. Some teachers say kind of, Students have to learn how to learn, but the first premise may be reading and studying and learning from our culture and civilization and then afterward they may be kind of more creative. 

You may be creative when you’ve got a lot of elements in your mind to think and create from that basement. Our students cannot be creative when they do not have a lot of cargo in their minds to combine and extract their own conclusions. Some of these latter ideas are from Spanish pedagogue, teacher, and philosopher Gregorio Luri. Have a nice day, my readers.