An Ideal Teacher
The ideal of a thing is often a theoretical
concept, and rare in reality. Yet we must pursue it to advance toward more and
more perfection. In this sense, everything has an ideal at its top. And so has
teacher ship. An ideal teacher is one who is not only knowledgeable, sincere,
farsighted, and self-taught, but also very dear to students. He must know how
to discover the treasure hidden inside the students and help to develop it. In
giving the teaching, he must be an actor and an innovator. He must have
penetrating insight and immense knowledge of education psychology. He should be
wise enough to teach students how they can teach themselves. He must, frankly
speaking, know well what he knows and what he does not know. Unlike other
ordinary teachers, he should train his students up such that they no longer
have to depend on teachers. Finally, an ideal teacher is one who makes himself
unnecessary to his pupils.
