A teacher !

A child has a brain with an infinite learning potential. What he learns, to what extent, to what strength and how fast depend upon what kind of environment does he pass through. A brain is like a clay, can be remoulded as you want. A student whom you are teaching , in genral, simply depends upon you. S/he follows what you say, sees what you show, hears what you tell and does what you tell to do. It is up to you whether you want to involve him/her at work or leave just giving a lecture. Your job as a teacher is to inspire him to learn and to involve him at work. At first, you need to be very clear what you are teaching so that your students can easily relate your teaching to their surroundings. They will enjoy learning and will never take it as a burden. Their tendency will naturally go towards learning if you make your teaching simple. A simple thing is beautiful. As John Keats says - a thing of beauty is joy for ever. Everybody loves beauty ! You can hardly find anybody who hates a beautiful wave created on a calm pond surface by a gentle wind. There is nothing more beautiful than a child in a swing oscillating at a small amplitude. You can watch it forever and learn a lot of things in there ! You can teach about it for a month. You can make your mathematics to explain it. What's not, there is a lot of thing in this simple phenomenon !

Let's go a little further. The child in a swing can not oscillate for ever. It will ultimately come to rest. Whatever you think may be ideal but there are a lot of things in the surroundings which go non-ideally. There are resistances, oppositions , drags, etc., which pump the energy out of the sytem. Once no energy is left behind, the swinging child comes to rest. That can be kept oscillating as long as you want ! Imagine that there is the mom of the child next to him/her and she pumps energy in a regular interval of time to the swinging child. That will bring the system always into motion with almost the same amplitude every time. But the mom has to be very careful in pumping energy into this system. If the mom pumps energy such a way that her timing matches with the timing of the swing itself, it may overshoot, which can be disastrous !

So teach a way that your students will feel that they are flowing naturally in their learning and they do not feel stressed. But, in the mean time, keep in mind that they are heading towards their goal too ! I think teaching will be a success at that moment !