Relationship

We all remember our years of school and we all have pleasant memories regarding them. There are some things and moments that we'll never forget, such as a special desk, a book that marked us, a certain story...But the persons we will surely remember are our teachers, the ones we liked or the ones we used to hate.


But there can be two types of relationships between the students and their teachers, let's say positive or constructive and negative or even illegal. The student - teacher relationship should be the one in which the teacher teaches and the student learns. For a child or especially a teenager, the link with the teacher is very important. Usually, students tend to associate a certain subject with the one that teaches it. You'll often hear people say "I didn't like math in school because my math teacher was a mad woman who was always screaming at us". But sometimes you might hear something like "I enjoyed English when I was sixteen; my teacher was a great person and I learned a lot from her. Now I'm an English teacher too". See? The point is that a teacher could be a model for a student, in their relationship it should be a lot of comprehension, communication and respect. A teacher can influence a lot our choices and our lives, especially when we are little and we believe that he knows everything.

A student - teacher relationship can turn into a negative one if it gets personal. For example, if a student falls in love with a teacher. Nothing wrong if it's just about consideration and respect, but teachers and students are not allowed to have a sexual relationship or to be together in general. Besides the fact that is illegal, it can affect a lot the student, but the teacher also, who won't be objective anymore. There were a lot of cases when students even did desperate things, being in love with their teachers, and in these situations, we don't know who we should blame.

But a student - teacher relationship can be a cold and negative if the teachers don't know how to teach or how to work with his students. In order to catch their attention, he should have certain skills and a certain preparation and what is very important, he should love to work with children and teenagers. There are teachers even nowadays when we think that we have developed communication skills, that don't know how to get along with their students. Perhaps is the age difference, but a good teacher always know how to adapt to a situation and I once heard that a teacher who really knows how to work with teenagers is always young. He should understand their problems and besides the subject he teaches, he should try to be very close to them. Often, teenagers need a piece of advice and sometimes, a teacher can be the person they need.

The teachers are very important persons for any student who spends a lot of time at school, but even for those who don't like classes too much. We all have beautiful memories from the period when we were students.