A true fact about teacher-taught relationship in present scenario

Man is that species of the earth that cannot survive alone. It may be due to the innate nature of human beings or his socializing attitude that we cannot see any man in total solitude. Although in early times there were numerous saints who used to practice total separateness from materialistic world and went on the way of spirituality. But if we analyse even there also, these saints were in the company of their spirituality or what we can call their respective Gods whom they prayed. I never thought of about the importance of relationships in life. The word relationship does not refer to only our personal or immediate relations that we get naturally by birth but has a wide scope to cover. There are certain short timed relationships that we are unable to forget for whole of our life. One such relation is the one that we make with our teachers.

Have you ever made a little effort to analyse this relationship? The reply will obviously be more of a “No”. Most of us are busy in strengthening other relationships when we merely remember the teacher who taught us how to spell out and pronounce the word ‘relationship’. In this article I want to focus on the importance of bonding between a teacher and her students. A teacher is next to motherly figure during initial days of our schooling. She is the one who helps us in getting accommodated in the strangest environment of school as it is the first formal setting of our life. She lays the foundation stone of our personality. I still remember my Kinder Garden teacher who was so patient in her behaviour that she used to remain quiet and calm even when we shouted and cried like demons.

Her affection is the same for all students. She is not merely concerned with providing bookish knowledge to us rather we get all other types of knowledge like moral, ethical, social, etc. from her only. I must say that the relation of a teacher and student comes just after parents in the list of importance and affection. But in modern times, where we are forgetting about the importance of relationship of parents and children, how can we expect someone to value the teacher student relationships? These days, both the extremes are available with us. There are students who value and remember their educationists for whole life and those for whom teachers are merely machineries who provide lectures to them. A teacher lives whole of her life through the eyes of students. So, we must learn to value our teachers because simply saying a “Thanks” from core of heart can payback the debt of what teachers do for us. Do value them; they are the stepping stones of your success.