Part 3 of Random Essays - “Children Blossom With Love”
For an essay contest I didn't win. I didn't even get a thank-you note for applying. ^_-
Why does everything sound so stiff and stilted? I really needed to loosen up.
Lacking proper management, today's youth may create a poor tomorrow. By means of human contact a young man is nudged in conflicting ways, and if those light touches become shoves of a bad sort, the youth can be likened to a bud that has been shredded before it has blossomed. It is imperative that at the crucial time of youth, he is shown his limits in detrimental areas and loosely but surely led to the constructive aspects of life. This sympathetic supervision can be offered in a positive teacher-student relationship occurring in a school setting. "...occurring in a school setting." Who says that? The teacher allows the student to fulfill his potential by providing ample space for the growing of his faculties, and in return the student gives to the teacher the respect and deference due to his advanced experience.
A teacher has a tremendous impact on the educational experience of a student, possibly determining whether it be rewarding or a trial. A good teacher is supple in his methods and inflexible in his goals, accommodating the student in such a way as will elicit the most mental profit specifically for the one to whom he is imparting knowledge. He will encourage the student not to deflect information back but to absorb, process, and make it his own by drawing his own conclusions. Truly interested in the progress of the student, the teacher is unaffected and refrains from condescension, realizing that the learning path is equally significant to the final destination–that of wisdom. By his character and actions the teacher exudes a sense of direction, a purpose to what he does, and communicates that motivation to the student.
\When a student is acknowledged to be a capable, albeit not fully mature, individual, to keep the good opinion of an esteemed mentor he will strive to become the image a brighter future promises him he will be. The student sees in the teacher qualities he himself would like to possess, such as patience, kindness, tolerance if not support, fairness, and a confident buoyancy that permits him to survive any hardship; even more importantly, to him the teacher is a human being whose aim is not to make him suffer but to guide him to look beyond recognized horizons. At encounters the student will bring a receptive mind and an optimistic attitude to complement the teacher's enthusiasm and love for his subject. Through this interaction the student will gradually find his values apart from that of the teacher and continue to grow independently of formal aid. A very boring person this student would turn out to be.
The compassion of a teacher for the human frailties of his student far surpasses the support a poster on the wall could provide, or any other unreachable model the student may have chosen. Depending on the class, a teacher is in a position to know the workings of the youthful mind by its physical productions and with that familiarity decide how best to assist him in development. To the student, a teacher is a responsible adult, separate from the intimacies of relation and yet near enough to understand the difficulties of emerging into maturity. With the teacher as a listening counselor, the student's needs are being appropriately expressed before they metamorphous into monstrous, unsolvable barriers obstructing a healthy and full life.
It would be unkind, if not cruel, to consent to dilatory and reckless behavior on the part of the youth. Better to discipline the delinquent now than later, when the employer will not be so forgiving as a restrained teacher. The role of the teacher is not merely to educate academically but also, in addition to the parents, act to build character and move such tendencies as speaking when others have already begun, to a more suitable vocation, as in a free debate. That's a lot of responsibility. Thus the student is fully armed to confront life with all it complexities, able to intelligently deal with problematic situations and, owing to his mental refinement, overcome them. This powerful arsenal will open Blast open, really numerous doors to him, and because of his teacher the former student will have attained, not the teacher's standards, but his own and become a productive member of society. And this is the ultimate goal...why?
