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• Making preparations is not synonymous with education itself. It is but a means to success in education. For a teacher, preparation means clean habits and neatness, coupled with a happy mental disposition and positive approach. A kindergarten needs both these types of preparation. The more wholesome this preparation, the better the end result – and similarly, inadequate preparations lead to worse results.
• The new breed of teachers in the modern schools must remember that any harvest reaped is not necessarily the best harvest. If you are blessed with wonderful results one year, should you not expect to repeat them again? For that, we must study harder, observe more minutely and work more. Also, we must always be on the lookout for any mistakes we might be making.
• The teacher must always speak correct and faultless language. The delivery must also be natural. Faulty pronunciation must always be avoided.
• Punishment leads to fear – not intelligence. Perhaps that fear may induce them to come to class prepared with reading and writing exercises; but ultimately, they will end up forgetting those exercises.
• It is the teacher’s inability of balanced thinking, caused, in turn, by his lack of teaching ability, which generally results in his beating a child.
• Those who merely speak the language of the new era, but continue the practice of physical punishment, are doing great disservice to the coming generations. They are betraying them.
• Like a cloud in the sky, the unpleasantness created because of misunderstanding may be forgotten after some time and mutual affection returns; but the fears created by the fearful sound and the darkness remain with the child.
• All the vacuous advice like, “Don’t move”, “Don’t make noise”, “Read”, “Write” and “Be ready for exams”, “Keep quiet”, “Be sensible”, “Do not dirty your hands”, “Do not spoil your clothes”, “Do not waste your time” and so on, can have dangerous effects.
• The developing intellect of a child needs lots of information on a variety of subjects. Sadly, our homes as also our schools today are like the darkest prison cells for a child’s sense organs. They must be relieved of these constraints and allowed free access to nature’s beauty. The grandeur of the endlessly beautiful nature is in itself the greatest source of knowledge.
• Education experts are unanimous that anyone who says he teaches and that he can mould children the way he wants, is not really a teacher at all. He is a traitor unto education and children alike. He is a criminal.
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