September 5 – A day for us to remember our teachers, a day for our teachers to remember their teachers, a day for our teachers’ teachers to remember their teachers and so on… And this is the perfect time to reflect on the value of our teachers in our lives.
Life is incomplete without learning. Learning is part of our everyday life. In every phase of our lives, we have something to learn and in every phase of our lives, we have new teachers.
So, who exactly is a teacher ? “A person who keeps talking when the listeners are no longer interested”. Ok, forget the jokes and sarcasm – lets get serious. How can one define a teacher ? A teacher is any person, young or old, friend or stranger, from whom one gains some information or knowledge that helps in the constructive progress and enrichment of their life…Hate it so complicated ? Let me make it simpler.
A teacher is a ladder. The ladder is there for us always and is there to help us reach the top. But even though the ladder aids students to reach the top, it just stays there, rooted to its spot. It doesn’t move anywhere, but just waits for the next set of students to climb the ladder of life and reach the pinnacle of success.
If life were like chemistry, then teachers are the representation of catalysts. Let us consider the reaction called “STUDENT LIFE” –
STUDENTS + GOAL + HARDWORK ,in the presence of TEACHERS, leads to SUCCESS + HAPPINESS
There is one dispensable part in this reaction – the catalyst. This reaction is impossible without the catalyst. The catalysts are always there for the reactants to react, but they don’t change in any way. They just keep waiting for the next set of reactants – new students, new goals, with that one constant reactant “Hardwork”. Our “Pursuit of Happyness” has a big void without the presence of teachers.
Knowing the definition of a teacher is not sufficient. Our next question must be – “How does a teacher feel while on duty ?”
To answer this, let me quote a beautiful saying that featured in the September 2010 edition of “Frozen Thoughts”.
“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.”
- Donald D.Quinn
Phew…that feels like a lot of work ! Now, we can surely appreciate how tough it actually is for a teacher during class . (For teachers reading this : This statement doesn’t imply that we’ll stop what we’re doing now. But as an act of appreciation, we’ll try to keep it down…. J )
Our teachers do so much for us, a really inexpressible amount. What can we do for our teachers in return ?
“What we have given to our teachers can be measured;
What our teachers have given us can never be measured.”
How true ! There is nothing that can equal what our teachers do for us. There is only one thing that teachers want from us, in return – the compulsory reactant of the reaction of Student Life, “HARDWORK”. Because, whenever our teachers see us, they have only one dream – to see us with the end-products of the reaction, “SUCCESS & HAPPINESS”.
So everybody, lets make a resolution to do this for our teachers, because this is the greatest act of gratitude that we can show for all that our great teachers have done for us.
And to all the teachers, “THANK YOU !!!”
Thank You for all that you’ve done for us…Thank You for all the faith you’ve shown in us…Thank You for always being there for us…
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