Education Is Education of the Whole Person

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EDUCATION IS EDUCATION OF THE WHOLE PERSON “Education is education of the whole person”. That seems to me a very important sentence. It says everything. I think that anyone who really wants to be a good teacher should start from this principle. A teacher who believes that his only function is to teach a certain subject required by the school, such a teacher will never succeed in being a very good one. There are many things besides Geography, Languages, and so forth, (and perhaps more essential) that children must be taught. They are human beings who have to grow up into sensible, well-advised adults. The teacher should help them to grow up, not try to impose his ways on them, (or to shape them his own way), but just prepare the way THEY really want to go. The teacher should prepare his pupils to face the world outside the walls of the school. It’s a great responsibility to be a teacher.You have got to be careful not to turn normal happy children, into complex frustrated adults. The teacher should not see, in those boys and girls sitting in front of him, a set of numbers each one of them with a certain mark at this or that subject. No 1 is a failure: he knows nothing about Biology. No 25, on the contrary, is quite a good pupil; his marks are very high and he knows a lot about Biology; how animals behave, how they are constituted, and so on. The teacher feels he has done his job, and done it well – that pupil no 25 learned what he taught him. He thinks now, with self-satisfaction and pride, that he is good. But things are not so simple. What about that “bad” pupil? What about no 1? Why is he a bad pupil? Why didn’t the “good” teacher succeed in making him understand Biology? What is there behind that no 1? A name, a human being, a boy who doesn’t like Biology for this or that reason. Because there must be any reason. Did the teacher bother to ask him about those
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