Teachers

How does a learner act when his teacher doesn’t act by how he has thought his student?

I think teachers are one of the best people ever made. They teach everything in a wide array of topics you either want or need not want to hear. They make you think, act and keep you nurtured like a growing plant hungry for facts. They readily feed you with all the possible knowledge they can muster. They will lead you on to different paths of information, give you a clearer picture of things you can’t understand and keeps your mind wide open to endless possibilities of the unknown. If I would be inspired by someone, it would probably be a teacher.

One of the best things about teachers is that you can’t only meet them in the four corners of the classroom. They are actually everywhere. You can meet them at the park when you are wondering why things are what they are. You can randomly meet them in your work place when you seem to be lost from where you are. Sometimes they are actually some people you know. They can be your helpful friend, giving you another dose of advice after a hard day. They can be your witty colleague who never fails to lend a hand during another toxic work day.

Your teacher is supposed to be your role model. He is supposed to practice what he teaches. By living up to what he imparts to his learner, he portrays a role that his learner will follow because he simply believes in him. As a learner, he looks up to his teacher as a foundation of how he is to be.

Now what if all the things you were taught were simply words left out carelessly for you to rigidly follow? Now your teacher, whom you look up to, makes these guidelines, imposes them for you, and you had to do it. As an obedient student, you then obey these rules, come to the point where you compulsively live up to perfectly follow these rules because it is how you are taught. Then one day your teacher does something that alters whatever perfect guidelines he has plotted on you. He diverts from what he has taught you and does something unnervingly wrong.

How do you even function after that? Do you think that still following the lessons you were taught would make you feel any better? How do you even start to decide whether what you are doing is actually right?