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What makes a good teacher? When I look back, I find that that there were some teachers who have left an impression that still remain fresh in my memory. We may not even remember the lessons we learnt from them, but there are some things that they said and did that make an impact on us and inspire and impel us to do our best. I believe there are no hard-and-fast set of qualities that will be agreed upon by all, but most of us would agree upon some important qualities that makes a good teacher. I hope to make my list exhaustive and useful while some may remain subjective of course. In some cultures, a teacher is a revered being; the respect that is accorded to a teacher is even higher that what is given to God. In the Indian culture, the guru (or teacher) receives honour right after the parents who gave life, and even the creator God takes His place behind the Guru - The original Sanskrit saying being Matha, Pitha, Guru, Deivam ( Mother, Father, Guru and God)

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward

How to be a good teacher

In my opinion, a person who inspires and brings out the best in a student is a good teacher. He/she births in students a love for the subject by the way they teach it, the way they encourage the students and reward them for their effort by making an example of it to the class. The words of praise that they use, the actions that highlight the words all make for great inspiration. I remember a teacher who used to read poetry to us as children. Her voice, her expression and her enjoyment of what she read inspired me more than the poetry itself.

A teacher is one who meets the student at his / her point of need. This, I believe, should be the basic and the most important quality of a good teacher. Students are at different levels of learning, even though they may be in the same class. A teacher’s ability to reach out to each individual student at his/her level of understanding and ability to grasp, and being able to also take into consideration the background that he/she comes from is what sets him/her apart.
Qualities of a good teacher

A good teacher identifies budding talent and potential within a student and helps him / her to develop them. Such a teacher does not judge his/her student only on the merits of their academic achievements, but is able to perceptively pick out and nurture talent in areas other than academics.

A teacher who is knowledgeable and is an authority in his / her subject is always respected. Although knowledge is important, it is the ability to get down to the level of the student and help him / her rise up to a higher level of understanding by delivering the knowledge in an appropriate manner that really makes the difference.

It does not make sense to children when they learn something that seems like abstract information, having no connection with reality they live in. A teacher who makes the subject interesting by demonstrating how each concept that is taught is useful and applicable to everyday living, will foster curiosity among students and help them to understand the importance of knowing the concepts well.

A good teacher is one who makes her students think. He / she enables creative thinking and encourages students to explore, discover and find their own answers. He / she also teaches them the value of independence. Teaching students how to teach themselves is the best gift a teacher can give his / her student. A great teacher remains as a facilitator for the students to acquire knowledge and one who silently stands by, encouraging and guiding the students.

Good habits formed early in life help students to become better people.Inculcating discipline and encouraging good habits could become a great boon for students even in their adult lives. A good teacher is one who is interested in the all round development of a student.

The ability to get and retain the attention of his / her students while a lesson is in progress is very important. Employing interactive learning techniques and encouraging active learning skills which involves usage of all senses takes teaching to another level. A good teacher uses every technique and resource that is available to make learning enjoyable, but yet meaningful and effective.

Being open, receptive to new information and willing to learn always is another quality of a good teacher. Every student has something to teach the teacher, and if he/she is open to learning, they would see landmark changes in their quality of teaching.

Being passionate about his/her subject and work makes an ordinary teacher a good teacher. Passion often makes the difference between teaching and equipping people for life. The love for the subject and for her work is infectious, filling the students with similar passion and enthusiasm.

The pursuit of excellence should always drive a good teacher into expecting only the best from her students. Constantly urging them to do better without de-motivating them would be the hallmark of an excellent teacher.

A good teacher is positive and encourages creativity and curiosity among students. No question or no effort is ever belittled or ignored. Curiosity is the mother of learning. Patience to allow curiosity in an organised class room setting encourages active participation in learning.

Having respect for students no matter how small they are and treating them with fairness would be the quality of an ideal teacher. The seeds that you sow in young children will reap rich dividends as the teacher has great influence over her students.

A good teacher leads by example and qualities such as integrity and honesty in her dealings with children and their parents would be a great example for students to follow. Teachers often send wrong messages when they do not stand up for what they believe in and bow down to pressure.

A teacher who would go beyond the call of duty to teach children to perform to their best potential while instilling in them values of good living is not only a good teacher, but a great human being who gives to the world a great generation with an excellent future.

The range of professional duties performed by teachers is wide and extensive. At the heart of a teacher's role is the promotion of learning for all pupils.

What is teaching?Teaching, systematic presentation of facts, ideas, skills, and techniques to students. Although human beings have survived and evolved as a species partly because of a capacity to share knowledge, teaching as a profession did not emerge until relatively recently. The societies of the ancient world that made substantial advances in knowledge and government, however, were those in which specially designated people assumed responsibility for educating the young.

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  What is teaching? The definition of teaching is so broad that it includes just about any instructional information given. Of course, when a person says the word teacher just about everyone automatically thinks of the individual standing at the front of the classes in every school across America. In truth, teaching involves one individual providing insight or information regarding a particular subject to another individual. There is no maximum or minimum when it comes to the number of people that can be on the receiving end of the information being delivered by a teacher. It does not matter how many people are in a class, but without a student there is no teaching.
  
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  Likewise, there can be no teaching without a subject. If information is not being exchanged then it is simply a situation where two people are standing in the same room. There can, however, be learning without a teacher. Learning happens every time a person comes across new information whether it is in a book or comes from personal experience. There is also a huge difference between teaching and teaching effectively. Information that is being given to a person without it first being put into a context that makes it applicable or relevant is information that is likely to be quickly forgotten.
  
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  Any experienced teacher will tell you that the occupation is equal parts art and science. Providing information to youngsters in an organized way that is gradually more expansive with every class is where the science of teaching comes in. The art of teaching happens when an educator is able to present information in a way that is engaging as well as informative. A good teacher is able to present new subjects to his or her students in a way that encourages the free flow of ideas and opinions.
  
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  There is no one right way to teach a group of students. There are, however, some very wrong ways to do it. Talking down to students or berating them because of their lack of knowledge is an almost guaranteed route to failure. Students, regardless of the age, respond better when they are treated in a respectable and encouraging way. Teachers that are unprepared for whose heart is not in it are quickly discovered by students who can easily tell the difference between educators that are interested in the material being presented and the students that it is presented to and those who are simply phoning it in.
  

first source of knowledge. We learn things about the past from the testimony of others. The experience of the person who gives you the testimony is the actual source. Although authority is used a lot as a source of knowledge, this is only a secondary source. Another source is the senses through empiricism. The realm of knowledge is given to us through all of our perceptions of something concrete. Whatever someone sees, hears, touches, smells, and tastes then is made

into an idea that becomes a part of the knowledge that person can receive. The philosophy of pragmatism is similar to empiricism. The next source is rationalism. Rationalists say that thinking is a source of knowledge. They also say that the mind has the ability to discover truth by itself, or knowledge is obtained by comparing ideas with ideas. The things that the senses detect are just raw material of knowledge in rationalism. The last source is intuition, or the

direct apprehension of knowledge that is not the result of conscious reasoning or of immediate sense perception. Intuition has four different ways that it is connected with being a source of knowledge. First George Santayana believed intuition was the awareness of the immediate data of consciousness. He said that intuition is in the knowledge of oneself and one�s own life. The second is that intuition is actually just a combination of one�s past experiences and thinking. It comes from subconscious

Man is physically weaker than many animals. He can not see as for as an eagle; he can not run as fast an panther his sense of smell is weaker than of dog. He can not carry heavy loads as some beasts of burden do. He can not fight lions and tiger with his bare hands. Yet he has managed to become the most powerful creature on the earth. His power comes from knowledge not from physical strength.

Man has the ability to acquire knowledge, preserve it and pass it on to the coming generations. This has given him the power to control the forces of nature and use them for his benefit. It is however necessary for mankind to use the knowledge and power wisely, we can create a better and safer world than the world today. Knowledge and power alone can not bring happiness to mankind. We have not used our knowledge and power for benefits of entire mankind. Those persons and nations who happened to possess knowledge and power in the past used it for creating personal and national empires by conquering more lands and enslaving more people.

Our knowledge has not enabled us to banish war that destroyed man from very beginning. In fact we have used immense knowledge acquired in the past two or three centuries to make war more and more horrible. The last century has seen man reaching the moon and exploring the deep space, had also seen two world wars in which million of people were killed. These wars were started by nations who meet most advanced nations in the field of knowledge and power.

Knowledge is no doubt a power it has changed the surface of earth it has brought countless happiness for man but is must be used in the right direction and for the welfare of whole humanity. The knowledge that creates the articles for destruction of man is not knowledge but a curse. But knowledge which opens the gates for human happiness is in fact knowledge which should be acquired.

The frontiers of knowledge are widening day by day and it’s rather difficult to determine the explosion rate. We must keep pace with the changes occurring in different fields of knowledge to survive the rigorous demands of the twenty first century. Real power comes to nation through knowledge. Let us acquire that power to raise the image of our dear homeland in the comity of nations.

Knowledge is power. This is true, when it is used for human welfare. Miseries and crimes may be the result of ignorance, but far more and worse are the effects of bad use of knowledge. Chemistry is a noble science. Should it be called harmful science if it is used to invent poison gases to be let loose on woman and children? It is a clear misuse of knowledge.

The man who knows has an advantage over the man who does not know. By his medical knowledge, the physician can cure disease and save his patient’s life. But the blackmailer, by his knowledge of some guilty secret, can bleed his victim white under the threat of disclosure. In this way the educated Classes have always been able to rule over the ignorant. During the middle Ages in Europe, the only educated men were the priests. The ruling classes very often could not even read and write. They had to appoint priest as their ministers and advisers. In the same way, and for the same reason, a handful of Europeans could control millions of African natives.

In the earliest history, the East predominated because of their superior knowledge. The Muslims were then the torch-bearer of knowledge. Europe was then sunk in barbarism. But with the beginning of the sixteenth century the West again became the leader of civilization. Western in fluence became dominant throughout the world. They established their colonies in Asian land African countries. South Asia remained 1 under the British control for more than a century. It was their superior knowledge and the weapons, organization and character which that knowledge had given them that made the white races superior to the East.

Lord Tennyson has rightly said“Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers” He means that science has provided us with a huge stock of knowledge but unfortunately it is not being put to right use. For example, Atomic power can be employed both for destructive and useful purposes. Its enormous potentialities to destroy life were demonstrated, when in August; 1945 two atom bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities, Hiroshima & Nagasaki. The devastation caused by them was unprecedented in the history of mankind. Of late, however, scientists have been concentrating as harnessing atomic energy for purposes of human? welfare. If we do not apply wisdom in the use knowledge, we shall miserably fail to achieve the desired object.

Physically, man is a comparatively weak animal. He cannot naturally run like the horses nor fly like the birds. He is no match in strength for the elephant, the lion or the