TEACHER-ENLIGHTMENT TO THE STUDENT

This is how one of a student sees a teacher:
The gifted one who is an antidote to the disease of ignorance. The teacher is the florist who gathers a variety of blossoms scattered all over, and strings them into a garland for the student’s heart. The teacher is the maestro who composes and sings the morning tune for the arousal of knowledge. The primary teacher is like the industrial worker going down to fetch up the ore. The high school teacher is he who separates the fibre of gold from the earth. The college teacher is the artisan who shapes the noble metal into a sparkling ornament. We almost spend one fifth of our lifetime under the care of the teacher. Should we not then put into practice all of that he taught us? The nerves in the body circulate life. Likewise circulation of knowledge is ensured by the master-nerve that is the teacher. The moon reflects and receives the light of the sun which is a star, but the moon still remains a planet. The student is different although he gets the light of knowledge from the teacher much as the moon does, he himself blossoms in process of time into a sun in his own right.