Dear students..........Suffering and
humiliation are part of journey to success and ego is the main hindrance.
What made
me to write this is the fact
that under the changed scenario
of education ( commercialization ) system, the role of a teacher is becoming
more and more challenging…and complex .
Earlier
a teacher was like a pot maker who makes pots using a special kind of clay (mixture
of suitable soil and water in required proportion).
If
the clay has the required consistency, then with his rotating wheel the pot
maker can give the clay any shape he want. The beauty of pot making is that,
the clay completely surrenders itself to the pot maker and allow him to mould
it self . And an expert pot maker can make clay take the shape of a beautiful
pottery which not only looks good , durable
but also useful for society.
So
the most important point here is how the clay surrenders it self completely to the
pot maker allowing his hand does the rest of the magic. It was a true magic. But
for that to happen the clay has to surrender itself completely without an iota
of resistance to pot maker and also undergo certain amount of suffering. Suffering
is the essence here. Suffering is the essence of life too…
In
this context a teacher is like a pot maker and students are pieces of clay of
required consistency ( To bring the students to that required consistency is
the job of parents which now a days are failing at ) . If students surrender
themselves to the teacher with a strong belief on him , then the teacher will
have an easy job mould his student into a good scholar as well as a good human
being. But for that happen the student need to undergo some amount of suffering
in the form of hard work and discipline.
But
today under the changed scenario no student want to undergo that suffering. He
wants the things to happen as it is
automatically. He don’t want to earn his marks and grads the hard way ( as it
was earlier ) but expects the teacher
give it or rather distribute it liberally. He doesn’t want to surrender himself
, but want to act like a free bird, which makes the teachers job more
difficult. And on top of it the parents now a day’s supports their kids. Even
they don’t want there kin undergo suffering which is very very essential for the success of their kid. As
they have paid donation , they probably want their son or daughter sail
smoothly. But they forget that doesn’t always happen like that.
Here
students need to understand that suffering and humiliation are part of the
journey of life and makes a man complete and successful too….Most importantly
in a struggle for success there should not be a place for ego.
Look
how great personalities of yester years whom we so adore were suffered and more
than that humiliated which brought their inner character and talent out and
shine.
Mahatma
Gandhi was kicked out of a train in South Africa along with his luggage’s into plat
form just because he was boarded on a first class compartment which was meant
only for whites. What a humiliation it
was…? Mr. Mohandas K. Gandhi who was
just a lawyer then turned into a rebellion of his own kind and retuned
to India to fought against British’s in his own Ahimsatmak way which helped India
to get freedom.
Mr.
Subhash Chandra Bhose was humiliated again and again in his class room by an English ( British )
teacher with racist remarks. That made young Subhash rabel against British. Later he become a great
warrior.
Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar was another person who was humiliated by his own society ,
by his own people , just because he was born in a lower cast. That made
Dr.Ambedkar a rebellion of another kind who fought against injustice that was
met out to the people of lower caste and bring reservation system. Later on his
stature went so high that he wrote the constitution of Independent India.
Dr.
Alberst Einstein was humiliated / suffered when his experiments failed again
and again to create a light bulb. After
hundreds of trials he met with success. He found a suitable metal that can be
used as a wire in the light bulb called tungsten.
Gallileo
has to suffer humiliation when his won countrymen called him as a traitor and a
non believer of GOD when he is presented his point of view that Earth is round
and there is a solar system in which all the planets including earth rotates
around Sun which creates days and night.
Till then people ( And Bible ) believed that Earth is flat.
I
will give you a a more contemporary example of an actor called Rithik Roshan.
As a child he was fat
and ugly as a result of which he was a shy kid. Added to that he was a spatter
(could not talk fluently / speech disorder). That’s why his father Rakesh
Roshan wanted him to be behind the
camera rather than in front of it as a director. But Rithik wanted to be an
actor. One day he has to face humiliation in a party hosted by his father ,
when a film maker told him that he can not become an actor because of his
speech problem and his fat body.
That
humiliation made Rithik to introspect into him self and his priorities. But he
didn’t gave up. He used to stood up for hours in front of a mirror talking with
himself for days/weeks and months which
improved his speech tremendously and he become confident again. Then he started
working on his body and looks. Three to four hours of training every day in a
gym made him a hand some hunk. But for that he has to sweat and suffer for
years together. Today he has a most admired body in the cinema industry. Even
his un paralleled dancing skills are a result of his hard work and dedication
for the cause of being a successful hero.
Even
at the age of 40 Sachin Tendulkar even today toils hard below a scorching sun
for his net practice to keep his cricketing form which shows that even when you
reach your pinnacle you should not rest.
I
am giving all these examples to emphasize the importance of suffering (hard
work ) and humiliation ( which he rarely undergo these days) .
But
today a student shy away from leaving his comfort zone leave alone suffering.
And humiliation is his worst nightmare. Just a few angry words from teacher, he
takes it personally and thinks that that particular teacher has a grudge on
him. His ego hurts. He becomes a rebel ( of no use ). Start to bunk the classes
of that particular teacher. And in this
ago clash (between himself and faculty )
he may hurt academically also.
So
under this changed scenario the role of a teacher has become more and more
challenging…He is not a teacher alone any more. He should be a mentor , a
friend and a philosopher carefully moulding
his peer. .
But for enacting this
new role he needs cooperation from students which should be ego-less.So
my request to students is that ….
Respect
your teacher, believe them ( that they always think about your good future )
and obey them so that they can lead you to success in you academics…
All
the best ….
And lastly to my teachers...who have inspired me ...
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