Good Teacher

A teacher is the one who shoulders the responsibility of molding the young generation. A good teacher clearly tells the children what is good and bad. He will never be biased or self-centered. The significance of teacher is stated in the popular Malayalam proverb, that says, "mother, father and teacher is same as God".

A good teacher will essentially have the following characteristics.

• Deep knowledge in the subject

• Ability to inspire and motivate students

• Be a perfect role model.

Earlier times, teachers were supposed to be like an encyclopedia. But as of now, the information and science is very vast. One can never be an expert in all of these. Hence, the present the best possible is that the teacher should be through and update in his subject area.

Secondly, the teacher should able to inspire the students to new ideas and thought processes. He should  be able to motivate them to achieve further by extending their limits. Craving out the best is the sole responsibility of the teacher.

Third, is  that the teacher should a perfect role model for the students to emulate. A criminal can only drive home the thought that resorting to bad things is alright for own benefit. A killer or a womanizer can tell only one message, that own pleasures is the most important. Such ill schooled students are the one who makes the life miserable for everyone else.

Two Moral Stories

Stories are liked by every one of all ages. Some stories have good ending while others are tragic. Most stories has so much to tell us. Most of them have a message that make us think and act accordingly.

Two stories that  interested me and inspired me a lot is narrated below.

Story1:

Once a eagle was hungry and was flying searching for food. While flying high in the sky and searching the ground for food, he spotted a fox keeping some fleshy worms in custody. He was quite hungry and decided to stop at fox. Eagle pleaded for few worms to feed on. Fox then said, your feathers are very beautiful, give me ten them in exchange. Eagle agreed for the trade. When the eagle ate one worm, he wanted more and more. The trade thus continued between eagle and fox. 

After some time, eagle lost most of his feathers, thus making him almost impossible to fly. Suddenly fox jumped over the poor eagle and killed the eagle to fill his belly.

Moral of this story is that, we should not trade precious gifts given by GOD for momentarily pleasures in the world.

Story 2:

There was a King who ruled a mighty country. He was extremely rich, always happy and spent lot for enjoyment and fun. One day a Sanyasi(guru) visited his palace. Seeing the attitude and life style of the king he decided to warn him not to be irresponsible in duty. Instead directly delivering the message, the Sanyasi presented the King a ring. He informed the King that there is a message inscribed inside the ring, and in difficult times in life he may read the hidden message.

After some years there was an unexpected war with a neighboring enemy country. King was poorly prepared for the war, but took all his army to the battle field to defend his country. However, his army was ill prepared and was getting defeated in the war. Highly disappointed, the King sat down on his chariot for a moment. That time, he remembered about the old Gurus gift. That moment he decided to explore what is there inside that gift. He removed the ring from his fingers and read what was written. It said " this moment shall also pass".

Suddenly he realized the present moment of sadness will also pass-by naturally, just like the earlier happy and joyful moments. This thought rejuvenated him. Once again he gathered his spirits, and fought bravely leaving behind all discouraging thoughts. His warriors also got inspired seeing their King fighting strongly and charging ahead. Finally, their efforts emerged as a team and eventually managed to defeat the opponents.

Moral of this story is that we should not be tied to the fun filled (short) present, but must be prepared and looking forward.