Do not compare

Part 1

Every living being is unique. No two human beings have the same fingerprints, not even identical twins. We need to acknowledge and celebrate differences instead of shaming two people by brutally comparing them. That is what many teachers do in schools to students even if the kids may be tiny tots.

Many teachers insist that this is highly beneficial to the students as it fosters cutthroat competition to encourage them to improve. That is why they think that it is their duty as a teacher to constantly put side by side students in the class based on their behaviour, academic performance and diligence at work.

I would like these teachers to rethink and empathetically put themselves in the students' shoes. Are they breaking in spirit when teachers pit one student against another? What are the students who are criticized for not being as good as others feeling? Is that instilling terror and inferiority complex in them? Is it making the applauded students arrogant and maybe moulding them into narcissists?

How would a teacher like it if their institute's principal compared them in public to other teachers in a similar way? My message to those teachers who think that telling 'insincere' students to learn from the sincere ones is inculcating high morals in them, is that they need a crash course in psychology.

What you see as dedication or the lack of it in studies is simply the tip of the iceberg. Below it is a mammoth of causes which are making the students behave so. Some students may come from dysfunctional homes and ones with ill parents. Maybe, their parents cannot or do not teach them at their residences. Some may have learning disabilities. I agree that there are pupils who nevertheless are fond of their textbooks and score well. Whatever the reason, students must not be compared in front of their peers.

Before doing this teacher, please ask yourself how earnest or academically sound you were at school. These teachers may not be receptive to this view and get defensive or even aggressive. That is why the students may get unduly depressed by this treatment.

https://pixabay.com/photos/terrorist-terror-be-happy-positive-2481808/: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay 

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