Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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Heightening Teachers' Awareness about their Profession
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have proved far more effective even where lashes failed. Incidentally, all great teachers were diligent practitioners of humanistic education. Maria Montessori, Froebal, Konstantin Ushinsky, Anton Makarenko, Vasily Sukhomlinsky, Gandhi, Vonoba Bhave, Gijubhai - were all great teachers because of their concern for children and also because helping children develop their potential was for each one of them nothing short of visitation of grace.
Even today, we do not know what is the secret of effective teaching. May be creativity, may be intuition, may be talent, may be what the students offer and how a teacher responds to it, or may be all these factors collectively are responsible for the inspiring act of teaching. The secret of effective teaching is unfathomable, it remains mysterious in spite of all that we know about teaching, the teacher and the students. I believe good teaching is like a performing art. Just as a master artist is inspired by responsive audience to scale greater heights and thereby performat his best, the teacher too can be inspired to soar above his usual level of teaching by his responsive students. After all teaching is an orchestrated communication among human beings; one can witness the act but not see its roots which lie deep in the mysterious recesses of human personality. One could possibly conclude on a positive not that if taken seriously, no job is as appallingly demanding or as fully rewarding as that of committed teacher.
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