Do not link your students’ self-worth to anything || Acharya Prashant (2017)

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Do not link your students’ self-worth to anything || Acharya Prashant (2017)

Question:I am a Maths teacher and I feel like I am forcing the students to learn something that they probably don’t choose to learn. Also, I feel that should I just give away this identity of a teacher because I have a feeling that this doesn’t suit me and I am feeling like I am forcing things like, “You have to learn,” “You have to do more work,” and I don’t feel quite at ease with it. So should I just drop my job?

Acharya Prashant:Is Mathematics something social? Is two plus two is equal to four something psychological?

Listener 1: No.

AP: Or is ten greater than eight, a statement of identification?

L1: No, but the job is social.

AP:If the student, who gets ninety-five percent, is superior to a student who gets eighty-five percent, then it becomes a matter of identification. Ninety-five is greater than eighty, or ten is greater than eight is a pure fact, devoid of any psychological implication, right? It is just a pure fact. But when, a student getting ninety-five percent is superior to a student getting eighty percent, then it is no more a fact. Now, you are suggesting something to a student about his self worth, about his identity, about who he is.

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