None can teach anyone anything: Learning is innate & inherent to be fostered & nutured: Special on Teacher's Day

In India, Teachers' Day is celebrated on September 5 to mark the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the first Vice-President and second President of the country.

This article is being reproduced [1] on Teacher’s Day observance this year to motivate teachers to become facilitators of innate learning potential of teachers. According to Dr Lalit Kishore , learning is inherent and innate – it is in humans ’DNA as proved by neuro-science – which needs to be fostered and nurtured by developing the cognitive skills among children by adults as senior co-learners

Kishore (1998) lays emphasis on processing skills and self-learning, the teacher as a facilitator of learning and senior co-learners is required to don new roles such as a learning designer, interventionist, educational engineer, contingency manager, facilitator, guide, method master, action-learner in future.

References

[1] Dr. Was then Principal, KV2, Bathinda, under Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

[2] Kishore, L. (1998). Emerginging New Roles of Teacher, Rajasthan Board Journal of Education, 25(3), pp.9-11