In English
Teachers must hold aloft ideals of scholarship
Teachers and students are now suspicious of each other; they are often in hostile camps. What a contrast is this to the Upanishadic ideal of ancient India. Then, both prayed together "May we both be guided and protected. May we progress together and achieve spiritual splendours together, through our studies. May no trace of displeasure or disturbance pollute our relation." A loving teacher dedicating his life to his profession becomes the model for his admiring students. A teacher can make or mar the future of the student, for he is the hero whom he desires to emulate and imitate in dress, habit and style of living and thinking. When teachers divide themselves into factions or scandalise each other or revel in the game of politics, students are easily infected by the same harmful tendencies. Discipline can become rooted in the atmosphere of the campus only when teachers set the example. "As the leaders, so the led." When teachers form groups in order to gain power and influence, students too do likewise. So, teachers must hold aloft, both by precept and practice, the ideals of scholarship, companionship, mutual love and spiritual progress.