The Essential Role of Teachers in Education : หน้า 30/47
Training the trainer part 1 : หน้า 30/47 Exploring the critical balance teachers must maintain between academic knowledge and moral values to foster responsible individuals.
Teachers play a crucial role in shaping students by blending academic knowledge with moral guidance. A clear understanding of their responsibilities can empower teachers to produce not only intelligent but also ethically grounded individuals. Addressing failures in education linked to moral shortcomings is essential for fostering a harmonious society. The foundation of education begins at home, with parents instilling virtues and good habits early on. Schoolteachers have a long-term impact, guiding students towards academic and ethical righteousness. Spiritual teachers help pupils navigate life's challenges, providing both guidance and encouragement to overcome inner struggles. By addressing unethical teachings early, teachers can ensure their students are equipped to make positive contributions to society, avoiding paths leading to suffering and conflict.
หัวข้อประเด็น
-The importance of ethics in education -Types of trainers in education -Home teaching and moral values -Role of schoolteachers and their impact -Spiritual teachers and guidance -Consequences of irresponsible teaching
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knowledge or science in a way that encourages absorption while correctly and
clearly conveying the subject matter to the pupil.
To be skilled in the art of teaching, teachers must not only deliver the subject
based on their combined in-depth knowledge and appropriate application but
also connect with the pupils by the respect they command by way of their own
personality and professionalism as perfect model teachers.
Many of the ills that the world faces today are due to education that does
not include ethical and moral virtues that are necessary for a harmonious society
and spiritually supported existence in this lifetime. Many academics teach as a
lucrative profession but are not teachers in the true sense. When education is
incomplete, it that knowledge is separated from morality and ethics, the very
fabric of society falls apart. Students are empowered with the knowledge
and ability to make changes for which they assume no responsibility for the
consequences. Students go into the world unaware of the forces that will lead
them onto the ‘Roads to ruin’. Their actions will only carry others along the same
path of endless sufferings and rebirths. Buoyed with academic success the pitfalls
of their irresponsibility will go unnoticed until kilesa and suffering have already
taken hold.
To avoid the consequences of irresponsible teaching, it is imperative that teachers
review their motives and take a professional or vocational approach to their
responsibilities as human beings. The teacher must know how to balance both
academic and moral standards in responsible cohesion.
To self-assess their teaching capabilities, teachers must ask of themselves individually
the following questions:
Do I teach with theory but without skill?
Do I teach with theory and skill but without moral integration?
Do I teach with theory, skill and apply moral guidance?
Do I teach with theory, skill and moral guidance successfully?
If teachers can identify with the latter they will surely produce well-educated pupils
that are also good people.
TRAINING THE TRAINERS
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TYPES OF TRAINER
Human beings learn from birth in all kinds of circumstances and from all kinds
of sources, but for structured formal education, we can categorize teachers into
three types as follows:
Home teachers — This refers to those parents or guardians who plant moral
seeds in the impressionable minds of the young, teaching good habits from birth.
It may be eating, cleanliness and hygiene, sleeping, bathroom use and so on.
We may classify these things as all the personal and social disciplines that add up
to a basic well-rounded individual who may enjoy successful social integration
within the family and community. If these basics of home-taught knowledge
and behaviour are neglected or impure, the consequences will lead to future
suffering and conflicts in society.
Schoolteachers — This refers to those who have a long-term role and influence
throughout the formal structured education of the pupil. Because of the
considerable number of hours and period of influence, these teachers will
have their students, their prime requirement is knowledgeable spiritual
awareness and irreproachable moral values. With this in place the academic
nature of their tuition will lead to the student in the direction of righteousness in
the future application of the acquired knowledge and education.
Spiritual teachers — This refers to educators who are recognized as thinking
and doing only good things, enlightening the pupil to the merits of
understanding oneself and life. They provide spiritual and practical guidance
and also encouragement to empowering pupils to overcome the kilesa that
will try to rule their lives. These teachers must also be irreproachable moral pillars
of support not only in this world but serve as an enlightened bridge between
this world and the celestial realm.
EARLIEST TRAINERS
But how do we teach children while they are so young to be orderly and punctual?
The answer is to make them used to these characteristics, otherwise if it is left
to a later stage it will be very hard to change already developed bad habits.