A
good teacher is the one who knows how
to make leaders who know the direction he must carry his followers to. And, a
good leader is the one who knows how to create a social environment that
facilitates growth and development of good teachers.
Imparting
some skills, teaching some techniques and giving training to his students for
making efforts for healthy physical survival of the society as a whole are only
the trivial and incidental duties of a teacher. Similarly, guiding and
directing his followers so that each one in the society has the freedom to make
efforts for his decent physical survival without stealing and interfering with
the natural rights of others are only the trivial and incidental duties of a
leader.
Is
it not shameful for us that in this advanced stage of our civilization, we, as
a society, are still struggling with bad teachers and bad leaders who have been
consistently failing in performing even their trivial duties? The situation is
worse than how it appears to be, because the thought of main and critical
duties of the teachers and leaders has not even occurred to us. The irony of
the situation is that we often pat our own backs for occasional success in our
efforts in pursuing the wrong targets by adopting the wrong ways and means.
The
modern man has submitted his intellect to the procedural demands that a
technician has to honor. We have allowed ourselves to be developed as
enterprising people without scientific temperament. Whether we revise or
revolt, that is not important, the important thing is ‘what we do’ and ‘when we
do it’.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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