Juniper Publishers| Role of Teacher in Student's Personality Development
Journal of Psychology - JuniperPublishers Education aims at the creation of a complete human being manifesting all the potentials. These days we often observe that the 'cognitive aspects of personality is more emphasized than the affective aspect. These qualities develop in the context of the society one stays in. As we, today, live in a rapidly changing and shrinking world and consequently it calls for teachers with a broad, deep and thorough understanding of life. Students learn in many ways: the attitude of their teachers to problems of life; their point of view and their methods of dose. So, teachers' philosophy of life has an important bearing on the life of the student. It does not matter what subject a teacher teaches, his general attitude impresses itself upon pupils, independent of the subject matter. A teacher is not simply an information monger, he goes beyond it. A teacher links his teaching with the ultimate values of life. For example, we take the case of a ...