The Sun and The Moon

As usual, a short excerpt taken from the excellent Paul Coelho's blog

– Do you see the moon, how beautiful it is? It will cross the entire 

firmament, and tomorrow the sun will shine once again.
“But sunlight is much brighter, and can show the details of the 

landscape around us: trees, mountains, clouds.
“I have contemplated the two for years, and have never heard 

the moon say: 

why do I not shine like the sun? Is it because I am inferior?

– The moon and the sun are different things, 

each has its own beauty. You cannot compare the two.

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EXACTLY. People always make the mistake that other

people should be like them. But they should realise that nobody is like

someone else. NOBODY. We are all different and unique individuals.

We carry our upbringing, our train of thoughts and our past experiences

who make us what we are.

Teachers, most often than not, make this mistake. We assume every

student should be like any other student when we know they never are.

Educational psychology emphasizes this. But sadly many teachers in

the profession jumps into this bandwagon, and slap this unto their

students 'if others could do it why not you'. Their uniqueness are

heresy. Their creativity condemned. Their decision blasphemous.

At the end of the day, we should ask ourselves

are we teachers, who show the way or are we just a part of the

machinery in a factory called school and that the end products are

denizens of society without any apparitions of self and the very

remnant of their beautiful soul?