Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Thinking beyond the existing limits of the role model

During a recent interaction with group of faculty members at Kolkata, a member felt that the students may be inspired to follow a faculty as role model. Many things came to my mind. Whether a present time faculty members qualify to become role models for students, when most of the teachers are average academician and many of them take up teaching job as temporary assignment.

I believe that the teacher has to guide the students to become fearless, open minded, truthful, honest and passionate They have to help them explore the limitless potential of human mind and to excel in whatever endeavour the students undertake.

If the idea of the faculty as a role model has to be thought about then the teachers role is to help the students dream or realize that they can beat the success or milestone set by the role model.

Let us not limit our vision to the limit set by the role model. The idea is to think beyond the existing limits of the role model.

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