The changes teachers must adapt to

As the legend says, once Aristotle and Alexander the great were in the company while passing through a river, at which juncture the teacher Aristotle was leading the way and the student (Alexander) following him. Abruptly Alexander superseded his teacher and started on the leading line deliberately, Although it did not give a good feeling or perception to the teacher yet he suppressed it and remained calm at that point in time. 
Nevertheless this mode of shift and change was in the manner that Alexander would step into leading position where ever the river was high and resuming back to the dry passages would make Aristotle to lead.
At the end of the river and coming back to the normal path of travel, Aristotle queried Alexander to vindicate his position of superseding his teacher in the manner he so did, to which Alexander offered his explanation in the terms that:

There could be only one Aristotle in this mortal world, who could produce thousand of Alexanders, but a thousand Alexanders are not capable of producing even one Aristotle.
He further expressed himself in a scarifying manner that it was always due to the bloody water tides that he never wanted his teacher to hit and drown him, and so that the teacher not be exposed to the vulnerable situation risk full to his life to which he determined to stay to the test to save his teacher.

In the threshold of 21st century, we don't have teachers like Aristotle or students like Alexander and this story reminds me of how time and values have changed over the period of time and specially in the last two decades. In the current era, the modes of gaining quality education have changed into a  formal form of what we call, schools.

This term of “school” here is the symbol for  any institution that facilitates for "educating" children through a set of qualified teachers. But the question here is, that if the only purpose is to educate us, why do we need a set of teachers in schools to educate ourselves, when in this modern era we have so many other tools of education like Internet, Media, libraries etc etc.

Ever since everybody has established their own definition of education, some people is consider it a mere piece of paper with a legal stamp or grading, which we call a degree. As being my point of view, education is a process of learning, an enlightening experience, a means of gaining wisdom and shaping the skills and talents of each individual, in accordance to which they like to spend their lives.

In this world there are two kinds of people, one who are students and the other who are teachers. Both stand on totally different platforms yet they have similar traits.

Just as mentioned above, The first kind of people prefer that if they are teachers they impart in you the kind of knowledge they want to, even if its not justified and up to the mark and just because they have the authority and they are "The teachers" they can teach you in whichever way they would like to and they then call it educating the children. Similarly the same trait, followed by that set of students who are only concerned with happiness and contentment of their teachers, who at the end of the term are going to evaluate their performance and give them their degrees.


The second and a rare breed, where I stand, contains a set of teachers who are sincere to their profession and believe that its a great responsibility to impart education and do their best. They have a conscience and they do not just believe in imparting the bookish knowledge or stamping the students with A's and B's but rather focus upon shaping their personality and building healthy and confident minds who can stand up for themselves and dare to speak the truth even if they stand alone. Similarly the students of such category see the world from a broader perspective and develop an aura which holds no boundaries and demands no degrees to accomplish their goals in life. They are well trained and skilled and they are far too confident in bringing the desired change in the society.


But the clash comes when the teachers of the first category confront the students of second, especially in the part of the world we live in. We live in a society where we are restricted not to point a finger or raise voice against certain sections of society, no matter how wrong they are. Focusing on this one teaching sector, being a victim and witness of this false tradition, we the students are just not allowed to even positively criticise our teachers. If a student files a complaint against a teacher he/she becomes a victim of constant nagging by the other teachers (lobby) and administration of the institute and they get labelled as disrespectful students, no matter how humble you've been in the course of giving feedback on the shortcomings of the teacher.


Such people are hardly seen who motivate students for the cause of getting the best possible teacher in a replacement or to register a complaint against that one black sheep. Instead they always ask to you be patient and compromise. Compromising not just at the cost of money you're paying them in terms of fees but also your career. Compromise because you are not wasting your quality time with incapable and inexperienced teachers? (The kind of teachers who bring bad name to this holy profession). Compromise because it’s a trial bases? Compromise on what and for what? Just for the sake of the degree that will only speak of your grades?

Since a teacher is taken to be a symbol of dignity, respect and honor, he/she is placed at the pedestal of role modelling which the students are deemed to conceive unconditionally because of the inherent attributes, qualities and skills that a teacher possesses and professes. This degree of conceivability is nothing but flows from the conduct, reflections and demonstrations in its optimal manifestation possessed by a teacher.

The positive feedback in the process of education and inculcation should not be taken to be a negative criticism, when viewed in the global perceptive of admission about the irreversible fact that perfectness alone lies with Allah Almighty and err is to human being, subject to corrections and reformations. So we need to change the mindset that only our elders and teachers are the reformers and the best critics being omnipotent towards the faults of their students but its vice versa and should be acknowledge as your students are a reflection and a part of your own self.

An enormous treasure of knowledge had to add up from what Alexander did as part of the knowledge.