I have been teaching for a long time. When I started my career, I thought this job was not for me at all. Teaching was not even among my dreams, which appeared and disappeared like soap bubbles. However, fate weaved its web and I found myself among the students in a school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first, I felt like I would never get used to it and I would never like this profession. As time passed and I entered children\u2019s worlds, I began to love them. In fact, I can say that while I was a cool girl, a motherly character came out of me. As I was focusing on each child\u2019s name, voice, character, mood, each of them settled in my mind and heart. There were some students I was angry with and even disliked. Some lessons could turn into a war. I was yelling and angry and exhausted for almost the whole class. \u201cGod, what is the secret? Why am I in a place I don\u2019t want to be and why do I keep fighting with feelings I don\u2019t want?\u201d I have asked many times! Sometimes I felt like a shepherd and sometimes like a babysitter. I still feel that way from time to time. What has changed is that most of the time I don\u2019t get angry on the inside, even if I get angry on the outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I stopped trying to teach in a one-sided way and\u00a0realized that one can learn from children,\u00a0that\u2019s when I started to enjoy my profession. Thinking that every class, and even every child, was there\u00a0for my evolution\u00a0has helped me learn to accept them as they are, even if I can\u2019t love them all. For example, I can no longer get angry with a student who disrupts the flow of the lesson by constantly complaining about his\/her friend on the pretext of a minor problem, because I have just as many unwarranted complaints. How can I explain to him the pointlessness of that child\u2019s complaint when I am always whining and complaining.\u00a0\u00a0So,\u00a0while I explain to him the futility of complaining, I also try to correct my own shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many ways to be a good teacher, but the key is to be a good student. Learning while teaching makes what you do a pleasure.\u00a0Kenan Rif\u00e2\u00ee, one of the Sufi mystics of the\u00a020th\u00a0century, said that he did not derive the same pleasure from being a murshid as he did from being a disciple. Because being a student has less responsibility than being a teacher, because a teacher has a responsibility to be a role model. Whereas in discipleship there is an effort to understand and comprehend without responsibility. I hope that each of us can turn whatever we do into an adventure of self-knowledge, like a student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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