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A Teacher's Responsibility: Choosing Teaching as a Career

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Teaching is a profession with great social and moral responsibility. Teachers directly facilitate the formation of future society and so they should handle this crucial responsibility with poise and care. But teachers themselves should be matured enough to understand this responsibility. Imagine a class where a teacher walks into the class goes on rambling about a topic with the sole intention of finishing the syllabus for the mid-term tests without bothering a bit about the dozing students, blank faces, and clueless minds. Is this what is expected of a teacher? The students might as well sit at home and gulp the subject matter scribbled in the textbooks. Definitely, here I am talking about students who have fair reading and writing skills and a sound grasping power. I guess each child needs something more from a teacher—may be a role model, may be a guide, may be a friendly philosopher who’ll simplify the code of life for them. But to do all this, first the teacher has to reach a