Desire
– A
teacher with real desire will always have an unknown, unexplainable ache when
the student is away from lessons or prevented from lessons by a simple holiday.
If the Teacher had just one last day of life left to fulfil or accomplish a day
well, one of the most important aspects would be to teach.
If a Teacher were to feel very strongly
in his/her gut of the heart that each child is a light of God no less, and each
person we teach is an embodiment of a gift to be filled with the water of
teaching, we will fill the thirst with sound teaching. A teacher with desire
and hunger to teach is equivalent to a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder in lives of
the student.
If one has no desire but is using
teaching as a tool or mechanism to earn or secure a living- the vocation is
simply not right. One would be doing a disservice to a student and eventually
to a community at large.
If one were to sit and speak or enquire
from a teacher about the daily construction of their lives, it is simply gut
wrenching to experience how many get into the profession for all the wrong
reasons. Convenience, living a four day week, having no other viable life
option, insecurity, and one even mentioned control!
Desire is also an attribute that would
dare take on a student that perceived as ordinary, ineffective or weak and
secure a potential in excess out of them. Real desire would mean that a teacher
would never fear the forging of a difficult path with the most ordinary of
students. A student with the attributes of desire, commitment and talent will
always excel even with a less than ordinary teacher.
A teacher’s with the deepest desire I
contend must always be an open to all possibilities and manner of students
learning. In the run of life a student will eventually know that it was the desire
and hunger of teacher that prompted his/her music and lit a flame for every
other endeavor.
Dominic Damian
16th October 2013
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