Teachers can sometimes block learning rather than aid it. A negative teacher cultivates negative students. Teachers are the building blocks of a nation. It is the teacher that molds the brains and personality of a child when they are not at home with their parents. Threatening, embarrassing, and hitting a child for him/her to learn or to understand a concept, does more harm than good.

In the primary and secondary educational system, it is normal to call a child stupid or to hit them if they are slow at getting a certain subject. Some teachers scream at students, or tell the entire class how dumb the particular child is. Others purposely call the child to the board to do certain things that they know the child is incapable of doing. When the child does not do what they are asked to do correctly or makes a mistake, they are insulted in front of their peers, thus embarrassing the child. To teachers this seems like a good way to push the student to do better. They think that by embarrassing or belittling the student they will make him/her determine to do better the next time. Teachers need to realize that they are not the only ones putting pressure on their student

s. Many children have parents that abuse them if they do not do well in school. This double abuse from the teacher and the parent can cause a child to build up a mental block to learning. When the child tries to learn and cannot get what has been taught, he will automatically think that what he is being told about his learning ability or lack of it is true, and give up on trying to learn.

When I was in primary school, my teacher use to insult the students who got the lowest score in a test or on an assignment; and then she would make it known what she thought of that particular person and where she expected hin/her to be in twenty years. When she was not satisfied with this measure, she would start hitting the students in the class who made more than three mistakes on their work. When I got to highschool I met a teacher who would publically embarrass the students. He even called them stupid and dumb to their faces.

Teachers should try to watch what is said and how they try to teach their pupils.

All these primitive methods of teaching cause learning to be a burden. Instead of the students going to school with a relaxed open mind, they go to school scared and afraid of making a mistake. When the teacher asks if what has been taught is understood they are afraid to speak up, for fear of being ridiculed or laughed at by the teacher. While in school, the te

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