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We are living in the world where one’s academic achievement and knowledge play a pivotal role in judging people. Inevitably, this is also applied when we evaluate teacher’s teaching ability. For example, a famous teacher who graduated from the world best Harvard University was kidnapped by one school because the school wanted to have more students by having that intelligent teacher teaching students. Likewise, teachers’ ability is judged by their academic attainments and knowledge instead of their ability to teach well students. However, personally, I believe that teachers’ ability to relate with students is more important than the ability to give knowledge.
To start with, in every situation, one’s mental attitude determines success and failure. To be specific, there is a famous proverb saying “where there is a will, there is a way”. This means, if you have a will to do something well, everything is possible. In opposite, if you don’t possess a will, no matter how the environment is optimal, you can never success. That is, no matter how a teacher is knowledgeable, if students don’t take passion in their study and opens their mind to their teacher, they will never able to achieve their goal. To illustrate this point, my classmate was very good at mathematics that he was always the top student in the class. However, after new math teacher came, he went reverse. Since he hated new teacher who often discourages him from asking questions, he had a rebellious mind against the teacher and sleep during class, not doing any homework and late for the classes. If the teacher did not focus on only delivering knowledge, and try to relate to students, would he turned bad?
Also, teachers should make connections to each individual student because every student has their own strengths and weaknesses that are different with others. Thus, it is teachers’ role to discover each student’s merits and demerits and strengthen them. The best example of this is my own personal experience. I had a teacher who had a lecture on public speech. He taught me how to make eye contact to the audience, how to walk on the stage and make gestures during the speech. However, he didn’t identify each student’s strengths and weaknesses. Thus, he didn’t know my problem was on the stage fear, not the technique. As a result, even though he was knowledgeable in public speaking, he wasted one and half hour just conveying “information”, one that I couldn’t practice at all.
To sum up, the true quality of teachers is not how they give out knowledge, but how they can cooperate with students and lead them. On the whole, I agree with the saying that a student is the mirror of his or her teacher. In other words, teachers play the most important role for students’ success.
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