EXAMINATIONS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE FAILED

Except your field of study is preparing you to start dealing with human lives, the examinations you take along the line are not meant to be failed.

Teachers bully their students every time they perform badly in their tests and examinations. Unfortunately, most of such teachers have never asked themselves how brilliant they were while in school. And that is quite unfortunate.

As a teacher, you are supposed to teach with all diligence and passion. Do not use your teaching style to create fear in your students- this is where their failures begin most of the time. And when they eventually fail, you blame them. Some teachers even become friends with those students who always pass their tests and examinations.

When you as a teacher become friends with the few who do well in your tests and examinations, you give them the courage to pass consistently. This in turn gives courage to the other group who fail to fail consistently.

The teacher who is great is not the one who has the ability to store theories, principles and proofs in his head. A great teacher is that teacher who combines creativity with classroom and real life experiences to bring out the best in his students.

Pythagoras said, "You cannot teach a child anything, you can only help him discover it in himself." It means that every individual is born with the complete store of knowledge needed to navigate life. If you must help me discover what is already in me, then you must have first discovered yours ahead.

Examination is not actually the true test of knowledge, but a partial test our self-discovery. If you have discovered yourself, then you have no business trying to help other people discover themselves.

The Oracle of Delphi said, "Man, know thyself." It is in trying to know yourself that you create a pathway that leads you to self-discovery. And this is how genuine success starts in a man's life.

Don't claim to know what you do not know. Rather, try to learn what you need to know. "Not until you acknowledge yourself as  idiot, you will continue to remain a fool!" If you are a teacher, then you must stop banking on residual knowledge! It is as dangerous as cancer. Never use examination to judge a child's future! It is a very dangerous thing to do.