TEACHERS ARE WINNERS (Htet Zaw Htoo)

TEACHERS ARE WINNERS

According to Myanmar belief, the word ‘Saya’ (teacher) comes from ‘Sar Yar’, which means ‘shadow’. Shadow makes everybody cool and fresh and gives strength to continue their work successfully. Similarly, teachers welcome every pupil friendly and warmly. Besides, they teach them what is right or wrong to be successful in their life. It is teacher who has a chance to do teaching between humans. It is lucky for a teacher to help a person’s life to be successful. There is always a teacher behind a successful story. There are lots of examples in which teachers help their students to get success. Therefore, it is said that teachers are winners. 

One of such famous stories is Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan. Though Helen used to be a happy and intelligent girl until she got a mysterious illness, she became blind and deaf after the illness, which she suffered from when she was two years old. Her whole world became dark and lonely. However, the light of hope appeared in her life after five years. Her father, Captain Arthur Keller, contacted the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Then he asked the director of the institute help for Helen. The director requested Annie Sullivan, a young woman teacher, to help Helen to learn language, the key to the world, and open the treasure in Helen. After she thought about it many times, Annie agreed to help Helen. Long story short, Annie tried her best to teach Helen not only language but also good manners. However, the Kellers themselves felt disappointed at her teaching method because they did not think hers was not on the right track. Besides, they thought that Annie made Helen unhappy and tired. However, Annie never felt depressed and never gave up her effort. As a result, she helped successfully Helen learn language, the key to the world. Later, Helen kept learning to read and write. She graduated from Radcliffe College, one of the best colleges in America. Later, she became a world-famous writer and appeared in some films though she was blind and deaf. It is Annie Sullivan, Helen teacher, who stayed together with Helen till her last breath and helped Helen’s life not to die itself and lose her best value. If Annie did come to Helen’s life and was not her teacher, it is frustrating to think how Helen spent his whole life. When Helen became famous, everybody wanted to know who was her teacher and praised at her all over the world. It is like a coach of the team which won the champion cup. Accordingly, it can be said that teachers are winners.

People said that there are most important and noble professions in the world. Medical doctors, teachers and lawyers are those who do these professions. As people said, teaching is a noble profession and it is a kind of art. It is art that makes people either good or bad and so is teaching. Teaching by teachers makes people good but it can also make them bad. Therefore, it is very important for teachers to teach their students only good things. Teachers are winners but they may be losers if what they teach and how they teach are not on the right track. It is important to notice that there is a teacher in every successful story but there is a teacher in a bad story too. In conclusion, teachers are winners if what they teach and how they teach are on the right track. Otherwise, they might become losers who produce people who are good-for-nothing for our society. Therefore, every teacher ought to try what they teach and how they teach are on the right track to be winners.  

Htet Zaw Htoo