Being a teacher
A teacher becomes truly noble when he enters a classroom, delivers a lesson, completes the syllabus, and fully grasps the responsibility of 'being a teacher'. What a teacher can do? Few stories illustrate this better than that of Helen Keller. Deaf and blind from early childhood, Keller faced barriers that could easily have confined her to a life of isolation. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, refused to see her disabilities as the limits of her potential. Through patience, discipline and an extraordinary commitment to teaching, Sullivan helped Keller communicate, read, write and understand the world around her. Keller went on to become an author, lecturer and advocate whose life challenged society's assumptions about disability. Similarly, the popular story of Thomas Edison tells us that he was considered an incapable student and was rejected by his teachers. His mother taught him and helped him become a world-famous inventor, enabling him to realise potential that his te...