3273. Why Did You Become a Teacher?


 
If we want to be good teachers, and we want to!, we have to be very human. Otherwise we would not hit the target of teaching and educating our students, whatever age they are.
We have to be cordial. Which is not an obstacle to hold some nice discipline in the classroom. Even more we will only reach nice discipline if we’re good teachers.
Saying that you’re a good teacher is something great.
Also we have to be honorable and upright, otherwise we will not educate nor even teach. We have to be human and people who listen to their students. I knew a teacher that knew how to listen to, and he was great, yes he was!
All that attitude educates a lot. It is very formative. We teachers have to live for our students. They’re one of the main reasons for our living, not to mention our working. In some way we have to be like a mom or a dad to our students. In that way we’ll know how to forgive our students and we won’t keep rancor.
That teacher I knew achieved to keep the class of students attentive even by gazing at all his students in a way that was plenty of love to them – something ordinary and not odd though. Benevolence love, remember: to wish what’s good to them. / Photo from: kamakerala com. I posted that illustration because I posted another one of Tintin few posts ago.

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