Teachers Are Generation Builders

Teachers per se are usually seen as leaders who shape the future of their students as potters shape clay with their hands. Their role is extremely crucial as it sets the path for their lives and paves the way for developing their personalities. Their encouragement, hard work and personal traits can, overtly or covertly, nurture the character of their students to greater extent. They can, albeit unknowingly, inspire students, making ever-lasting impressions that propel them forward to reach their potentials. However, in some cases, they could be a reason to severely ruin their lives. Hence, their role is salient and crucial, especially during the students’ tender ages. Being educators give them the honor of sharing the responsibility of bringing up generations after generations. On balance, teachers have either positive or negative impacts on their students that can define their prospective lives.

           “She [the teacher] moved me from the back of the room to the front seat by her desk,” narrates Santiago who is a primary student. A tiny act like this made a big difference in her life; she thought that she was doing well and mostly she was the best. This is in part fuel her self-confidence. She also liked her teacher as well as English composition, which she “found appealing.” By the same token, another student, Eva Hoffman, described her teaches as “a kindly looking woman who tries to give us reassuring glances.” This pacified her and her sister and somehow made them feel that they were in a place to which they belong. She even helped them return home by writing them a sign that carried their address. Their overriding worry was their new names that significantly affected their self-image, which made them feel “strangers” to themselves. Both Eva and Esmeralda remembered every nook and cranny of their first day at school as well as the treatment and attitudes that they have observed at the time.