When The student is ready,the teacher appears?,anyone who read Monk who sold his Ferrari will remember these lines well,There are many kinds of teachers in the world and I got who is the best of them ….
home is the first school and that's where basic foundations are laid for lifetime … and I will try to write down all those I consider as teachers and will try to analyze them in my way and I will need your opinion to complete this article via your comments… Image Credit
1. Home.. Family and background
Every human needs a family and love and their childhood plays a very crucial role their life,childhood makes and breaks a man and that is true and I can say that child hood is seeding time in life and when the seeds are not properly sowed ,It may lead to disasters in later life.Hitler,Michael Jackson are victims of bad childhood .
Family with good values and culture will bring a good citizen to society and nothing is guaranteed ,good families may bring bad children and bad ones may bring good ones and still every child in this world needs a good caring,loving and educated family .
2.Nature
Nature is an amazing teacher and you will be surprised to see the vastness of its knowledge and once life time is not enough to learn all the lessons and Ancient civilizations and people are much closer to nature than us that's why they know so much about nature than us .
from a falling tide to a grass,trees and lakes everything in nature teaches a lesson and we as humans,The Thinking animals need to look ,understand those lessons .image credit
3. Thinkers,Guru’s and Enlightened Souls.
My personal Favorites ,Thinker’s,gurus and enlightened souls .Human Mind is a amazing magnet and machine and there is a program called Focus to hack it and these people are experts. Many people think Monks,yogis,priests,thinkers,guru’s,enlightened souls do nothing at all just sit some where and give speeches to time wasting people.
when you eat,sleep,talk,drink nothing but wisdom,god and spiritual things you are Genius in worlds Toughest subject.and Let me put it this way when you need an a IPod you will walk in to an apple store and buy it right ,why ?because some one took the pain and initiative of inventing it and you don't ask him how to make a IPod and start making one.
But here Enlightenment or Spiritual feelings are felt and cannot be taught and most of all ready made and you need someone to tell you how to do it and you do it that way. Just like love unless you experience what i am telling you cannot understand it.
4. Formal Education
Schools,teachers,colleges,lecturers and Professors…. Tuitions and this is INDIA and its educational system in short . I really really hate or as king Julian says Hatest thing in the world and that will be Indian educational system and Unworthy Teachers and I am not saying every one is a bad teacher(95% ) but most are. Really you must see it to believe it .
even today as I write this post many Indian students are studying some thing which they don't understand and maybe will never understand but still they study it so well they will get A+ in that subject.Trust me i will show you some brilliant students who can by heart Accounts and Mathematical problems ….cant say more Intelligent students will get hurt.
5. Life … Experience and Situations
Life situations and experiences will help you shape your life ,wanted or unwontedly we may get in to situation and we face them,every one in life will have new things in life but only a few in life will every analyze why this happened to me and what are the reasons behind it.
Life is the best teacher ,every person you meet in life is a lesson and also many new things in life will help see life in a new view.
6.Friends
Friends are friends and not teachers and Friends will help you learn and evolve and that's what makes them special and they will learn teach and share with you,and that make life lessons memorable.
7. Religion and God
Religion is like a bridge between god and you and ,every person who believes in god will follow some religion or other or some concepts from various religions and religions are very good source for inspiration and lessons . Every religion offers wonderful principles and rules for lives .I personally prefer good things from every religion and believe in oneness of god.
8.Books and resources
books are excellent teachers and books are written in all languages and on all topics and if you want information on any topic,first thing we think is to refer some book for information and books are sacred and that's how ancient knowledge passed on from generations to generations and books help you understand yourself and improve imagination.
9.From Mistakes of others
Nobody is perfect everyone will do mistakes in life in almost all kinds of things and best thing is learning from others mistakes ,as the life is so small to learn from others mistakes and this is not a preferred method and one will learn more from ones own mistakes and from failures than from success .
10. Your own Way.
Every person in this life will have his own way of learning and you can mix up all the above 9 topics and add to this 10 point.really there is no need for a special teacher ,if you have it is always an asset and if you don't have then no problem, you are your own teacher .
Every thing in life that happens to you is for good and good only . and Seeking education in every aspect of life is a wonderful thing and every day unlimited doors are opening and closing for you.if you stand at one closed door forever you can never see all those opened doors
For me mix of all these teachers worked good so far and best is mind and God concept.god will let me learn all those I wanted to learn and mind will cooperate then.when mind is not cooperating God doesn't want you to learn it .it may sound weird and funny but it is how I live and I am a World-class human ,just like every one else .
What do you think, who is your best teacher and why ? Comments section awaits you….