Teaching had always been a noble profession.Once you made a decision to dedicate your life to teaching, it becomes a sort of quest. Inevitably, a part of your inner world and soul starts to be a little part that you are to share.
A Chinese proverb says: "if you plan for a year--saw rice, if you plan for a decade -- plant tree, if you plan for a lifetime--educate people". These words are virtue and essence of the craft every teacher is performing.
The same idea refers to teachers of a foreign language. At the moment you start teaching a foreign language,you not only make your disciples speak or read a different language,possessing its forms and structures. Unconsciously, you introduce to them a new world with new culture, a different vision of life,a new angle of interpreting and understanding things. This world makes both sides all-round and deep personalities. And the Teacher here is always an everlasting light, a guiding star, a mentor who inspires and helps to make new discoveries in different souls. It is a real mystery indeed.
A Chinese proverb says: "if you plan for a year--saw rice, if you plan for a decade -- plant tree, if you plan for a lifetime--educate people". These words are virtue and essence of the craft every teacher is performing.
The same idea refers to teachers of a foreign language. At the moment you start teaching a foreign language,you not only make your disciples speak or read a different language,possessing its forms and structures. Unconsciously, you introduce to them a new world with new culture, a different vision of life,a new angle of interpreting and understanding things. This world makes both sides all-round and deep personalities. And the Teacher here is always an everlasting light, a guiding star, a mentor who inspires and helps to make new discoveries in different souls. It is a real mystery indeed.