Teachers Are Society’s Best Friend

Teachers are similar to neighbors. Although there may be no blood ties, a bond exists between both parties due to friendship and familiarity built up through time. Often, one runs to them to lend their thoughts on daily school life or to borrow a cup of sugar. Despite the pettiness of the matter, they seldom turn away a request.

It is therefore no great revelation that many hold fond memories of their past educators. Perhaps it was due to extra attention paid to one struggling to cope with their reading skills in the formative years. As time passed, the student developed a love for reading and writing, thus polishing the skills and progressing into the ranks of a successful author. Others may lay claim to the guidance received for a science project whereby questions and problems were patiently responded to by a learned yet humble tutor. University teachers in the guise of professors also contribute to the betterment of society by casting an influence into the lives of those in their educational care.

These invaluable individuals’ role extends beyond the confines of basic teaching of knowledge. At the early years, young ones are tended to by these caretakers with the purpose of grooming them into polite and well-behaved children in preparation for formal schooling. Upon entry to primary and onwards to middle school, students come in contact with these guides who make a formidable effect upon their lives. New experiences, discipline, responsibility, peer pressure, insecurity, parental obligation, breakdown of the family unit and many more factors become intermeshed into the daily school life. Ambitions, life’s choices and mindsets are also shaped to get ready for advancement into higher levels of learning. In a nutshell, a teacher participates at various points of a child’s life for the purpose of coaching a generation of knowledgeable as well as functioning adults.

By: Chris Cornell

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