Teacher in You

I have been teaching for more than 4 years now. The teachers in today's world go through a lot of training and concentrate more on the content and acquiring knowledge rather than IMPARTING knowledge. There is no training which teaches you how to impart knowledge. Imparting knowledge is not a content based learning but comes through practice and lot of practice. We would notice that the best of the teachers we know are not the best because they know a lot about their subject but they know to shove the little knowledge down our throat well. Most usually this quality is the product of a lot of practice or it is genetic. I know for sure that i have improved a lot since my first lecture and still have a long way to go. 

Along with the above information I also have come across an observation. I really believe there is a Teacher in all of us. We use this part of us to solve a lot of problem and use it with various other roles we play in our life. Teacher is simply a person who imparts the little knowledge he possesses. One need not be a Phd to teach. A 10th std student teaches his brother who is in 8th and he actually does a better job. An uneducated mother teaches her son. An hour before the exam your friend teaches you a concept which the prof. took a month to teach and you write the exam to perfection. Everyday we come across someone who tells something and that gets etched in your system. You walk on the road and you see someone who picks up the garbage and puts it into the dustbin and at that very moment you learn to do the same. And these learning are for life and has a mark on you throughout. These are actual learning. 

In conclusion, to get optimum efficiency the teacher has to spill out the correct words and the student should be in the correct frame of mind to gulp all the words. Usually a student only grasps 30 percent of what the teacher imparts. The numbers go up when the teacher and the student are in complete harmony of their selves. We all come across this zone more often than ever in our day to day lives. As individuals we do have that instincts to teach and be a student and create that harmony. That authentic zone which belongs to us and which would have an effect on many. Please do meet the teacher in you once in your day and help make a difference.