Can we call anyone a teacher if they teach us?

“If you quarrel with God, then you don’t worry. Because your teacher is there to help you and he know how to solve this. But if you quarrel with your teacher, then no one will be there to help you and nobody knows the solution to solve it.”

            In the modern days the term teacher is a designated name. One who knows the subject then people will address them as teachers. But everyone we address as teachers have the eligibility to be a teacher. Today the society addresses any buffoon a teacher if he or she teaches in a college or school. Most of them consider teaching as a profession. It is a wrong notion. Teaching is really a vocation. ie, a selfless service with sacrifice and purity. Teaching is not a matter of conveying academic matters to the disciples but enlightening and enriching excellence with care, consideration and a guiding vision and correction methods.

            Practicing the above mentioned facts is not simple. We can make it simple if it s life to us. To impart this excellence we need born teachers. Because teachers are born, not made. No degree, qualification and training make good teachers. To be a good teacher is a high call from the Almighty.

            I got inspiration to write this article from the environment I am working with and experienced with. A lot of people entering into this noble service with wrong intentions and with underground movements. The society is supporting such trained teachers. I call them as trained teaching labors. Zen masters select one or two disciples from thousands and they train them as masters. Because they know nobody can be a master without a spark in them. They find out that spark. Teachers with such spark can ignite generations from dark. Society needs and demands such persons as teachers.

 So we can call them as teachers with the values they behold and impart.

 

“Our students of today will shape the new tomorrow. The values we inculcate in them today, will depend the future of the world”.