[etni] what is the main skill to be a good teacher?

  • From: Enrico Napoli <enrico.napoli@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: "etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:12:56 +0100 (BST)

Concerning the general need of a teacher and
the advertisements that I have seen on this mailing list, I would like to ask
you which one in your opinion is the main skill that one should have to be a
good teacher. Well…according to my point of view the preamble is: since young
people have less experience of life and therefore less disappointments than
adults, how is it possible for an adult to teach to the young? Shouldn’t it be
the contrary? Have you ever noticed the expression of frustration of the babies
when they try to teach to their parents and their parents do not want to listen
to them? And yet the babies try to teach them again and again unless one day
they become bored of their parent’s stubbornness and they stop to teach. In
that moment the adults loose their teacher, and then they look desperately for
him/her but he/she’s gone because of their stubbornness. Isn’t that absurd? 
And
yet things go in this way.
Well…this is what I think for I believe that the
main skill that one should have in order to be a teacher is humbleness towards
those who have less experience of life that is to say less disappointment, and
since this quality is so precious as to find water in the desert, finding a
good teacher is the most difficult goal in life. As regards me, unfortunately I
don’t have this skill of humbleness. I wish I had this quality, but I must
recognize that I don’t have it. All that I have is an Intermediate Level in 
the
Toefl Ibt test, and the ability of writing poems. That’s all, and I do not 
know
if this will be enough for getting a job as teacher here, or in Israel, or I do
not know where else. And for you? What is the main skill one should have to be
a good teacher? Thanks everybody and greetings from Italy.
Enrico
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