Teachers who are not perfectly calm, who do not have an endurance that never fails, and a quietude which nothing can disturb, who have no self-respect — those who are like that will get nowhere. One must be a saint and a hero to be a good teacher. *One must be a great yogi to be a good teacher. One must have a perfect attitude to be able to exact a perfect attitude from the students. You cannot ask anyone to do what you don't do yourself. That is a rule. So look at the difference between what is and what ought to be, and you will be able to estimate the extent of your failure in class.*




Mother,

Once a worker goes to the school he becomes “an important person” and ignores work. I wish something could be done to remove that stigma from the school. Teachers and students expect more concessions and conveniences. They stick to the school to avoid work. And if they go for any work they do not give their full and are not very helpful.

Or perhaps they are special beings¹ who have come for something else and we expect the wrong things from them!


*The greater beings are always the most simple and modest. *

Blessings.

2 October 1967


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The students talk so much in the class that I have to scold them often.


It is not with severity but with self-mastery that children are controlled.


I must tell you that if a teacher wants to be respected, he must be respectable. X is not the only one to say that you use violence to make yourself obeyed; nothing is less respectable. You must first control yourself and never use brute force to impose your will.

I have always thought that something in the teacher's character was responsible for the indiscipline of his students


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