There is an ancient saying by Buddha, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” In the same way, when the young minds get ignited, the senior scientists appear before them as teachers. Well, many misconceptions are there regarding a scientist's ability to be a teacher or vice versa. Anyone who can transfer the knowledge, mind ‘knowledge’ and not just ‘information’ to the seeker can be called as a teacher.
In the current times, there is an overload of information from everywhere, especially the internet. Accordingly, the internet should be eligible to be called a ‘teacher,’ but we cannot call the internet as a teacher. In India, the teachers were once respected for being so very selfless to impart the knowledge to the students. However, nowadays teaching has become a business, and anybody who use his words and presentation skills to throw out the information becomes a successful teacher is schools, colleges, and coaching classes. Also, students have turned from knowledge seekers to customers/clients who are looking for good grades and a job. So, it is an easy task to be a teacher in the present times. Teachers are not respected in these days in India because of the attrition of moral values in the current society. Moreover, teachers look out for making more and more money by giving lectures, presentation, and notes.
The discussion topic for the current blog is ‘Can scientists teach?”. The answer is, ‘Of course, Yes’ and also in a far better way, as compared to the regular so-called teachers. The reason for the scientists to be a potentially a better teacher, as compared to, the teacher in a college because the scientists are gifted with their scientific experience that is shared with the students in the form of real knowledge.
Finally, the endpoint is such teachers who are scientists, as well, do not hanker for getting more and more students for making a business. However, they look for initiated minds as students who are waiting to be ignited. Bright minds get attracted to bright masters/teachers/scientist-teachers.
