My Student My Teacher

It’s not correct that a teacher is always cleverer than his student. If the teacher is older, yes, that can be true. Almost all students of high school are younger than their teachers though in special case some students are at higher age level. That’s the fact yet it doesn’t mean they are stupid. What do you think?

I have some teacher friends underestimating their students. They often, almost always, think that they are superior in the classroom. Off course, by behaving like that you can guess what happen in the class when they are teaching. Class atmosphere is not conducive. The students prefer to keeping quiet. For them, saying nothing is the best way to stay in the classroom. As the result, the class doesn’t become cheerful and turns to be deathly boring. The teaching goal can’t finally be reached absolutely.

Unfortunately for the students, their teacher often doesn’t realize –I think ignorance is more precisely- this. Dead classroom, is it correct term?, is comfortable for this kind of teacher. In such dead classroom, one way communication automatically happens. Teacher is talking while students are listening to, sleepy, the worst –sleeping. If this is still allowed to take place, there will be poor teaching-learning process. Unless the teacher brings to improvement, all parties will be stressed. It often happens that only at student side stressful state retrieves. That annoying teacher remains enjoying the class.

We’re back to teacher students. I bet underestimating teacher will be hard, very hard, to understand their students. Every knowledge coming from students will go into their left ear and in milliseconds come out from right ear hole. It means that they don’t believe what their students say is true. They don’t want their students become their teachers. Those teachers are sure that they are more knowledgeable and more experienced. So, it’s impossible that the students can beat them. I believe that such teacher will be left behind someday. A good teacher should not look at the source of the knowledge but it’s being wiser if they can pay attention to the substance.

What about you? Whoever or whatever you are, if you are a teacher or teaching now, treat your students as the source of knowledge as well. Treating students as teachers is not illegal. No need to be shy even bitterly ashamed because that is not embarrassing behaviour. It doesn’t make you look foolish; on the contrary, your students will see that you are an open-minded teacher. They will know you don’t stand high and draw the line at them. Although you treat them as if they are your teachers, I am one hundred percentages and absolutely convinced they will still consider you as the one knowing more.

Now, say good bye to your pride and prejudice and be humble.