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A truly great teacher commands awe from the students and the students keep their awe on the teacher even when they grow up to become great themselves. A good teacher always commands respect from the students. A mediocre teacher demands respect from the students and manages to get it in the short run. A bad teacher never gets respect from students even if he/ she demands it.

How to be a good teacher? This is one topic even a third rate student can write about and any teacher who wants to be good teacher can get a couple of good clues even from such a writing.

(1) Love Your Profession:

No person can ever become a good teacher if he / she ends up in teaching just because he/ she failed miserably in getting any other alternative employment. In India, several post graduate degree holders, who happen to have done their PG course just because they failed to get a job after graduation, come out of the academia better qualified to be more unemployable than before! Many such persons end up in teaching profession by default, though they do not have any flair, liking for the profession nor any capability to become teachers.

It is a curse that the educational system, per se, relies just only on qualifications on paper for employing the teachers and never bothers to ascertain the positive qualities so essentially required for one to become a good teacher. Result? Countless teachers come to the profession without any love for the profession. It is just a job for them to earn their salary.

One can become a good teacher only if one has love for the profession. This love can bring in the earnestness and commitment to acquire all the other skills and qualities needed for the teaching profession.

(2) Know What You Teach:

A blind cannot lead another blind; but many teachers, who are in the dark on the topic they teach, seem to think they can shed light on it! Unless a teacher has grasped the subject he / she teaches thoroughly and can make it understandable from a student's level of grasping, he /she can never become a good teacher.

I vividly remember two of my professors who took classes during the third year of my degree course thirty two years ago. Professor Krishnamoorthy would come to the class empty handed and the subject Atomic physics would just flow from his lips like a torrent, supported by his sketches and derivations on the black board. His thundering voice, his lucid exposition, his willingness to respond to students' queries - every thing is still clearly etched in my memory.

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