What Makes a Good Teacher?

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Teacher is a very important role. Even Plato declared that there are three the most important professions and the teacher are among them. Teacher is not only a person, who should teach, it is a person who must lead the pupil on the way to the truth. Teacher show the world and explain the laws of this world. He is often a tutor, a preceptor, a person that you respect. But, sometimes teacher may bring only bad emotions to his pupils. So, what makes a good teacher? It is a difficult question…And what makes a good person? What makes a good man in fact? I think the answer is not definite because so many people, so many opinions. Someone sure of that a good teacher should be strict and firm, others say that it must be calm and kind. I try to put the answer in my own words. To my mind, teacher is at first a man, a person and if he is a difficult person with inner problems, with bad character – he can’t be really good teacher because teacher works with people, not with machines. He should know how to socialize, how to help others. Good teacher must understand their pupils, their feelings. Teacher’s purpose is giving knowledge, but people don’t take knowledge easily, they want to convince themselves in necessity and importance of this information. Good teacher can make so that pupils let pass the studies throw their hearts. Most of all, it is very important for teacher to love his subject. His mood, opinion irrationally hands on his pupils. If person love something – his feelings, his example will be better than any words. So, what makes a good teacher? I think, a good teacher is a vocation, a gift of God because sometimes a person have excellent qualities, wonderful character, loves his subject, but we can’t say that he is really good teacher. To be a good teacher is a talent and a
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