Being a teacher has great responsibility and has great consequences if those responsibilities aren't met. Let us define the role of a teacher in any student(s)-teacher relationship is to give to the student the knowledge he or she desires. If this is true, it is necessary that if the teacher is to teach the student(s), the teacher must own a superior knowledge of the subject the student is pursuing. Also keep in mind that having that superior knowledge is necessary but it is not sufficient. A teacher must also be a

ble to aid or facilitate the student in his/her pursuit of that knowledge. This changes our first definition of being a teacher. Now, we can say that the teacher is someone who enables the student to acquire the knowledge in the most efficient way.

My best friend once told me "students are their own best teachers", which makes it applicable for this essay. My best friend was implying that the most efficient way for a student to obtain a particular knowledge of something is to teach it to themselves. For example, students A, B, and C are taking a college level, general biology class with their intent of being hungry for knowledge. Although there is one person who is referred to as the teacher (the person giving the lecture), he/she is not the only thing that these students can gain knowledge from. They can easily gain knowledge through the use of the Internet, reading his or her textbook, or by interacting in groups. Of course, the textbook and the professor give out more biological knowledge than the students do, but often times there are other students who have previously stu

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