An old man meets a young man who asks:“Do you remember me?”
And the old man says no.
Then the young man tells him he was his student, And the teacher asks:“What do you do, what do you do in life?”
The young man answers:“Well, I became a teacher.”
“ah, how good, like me?” Asks the old man.
“Well, yes. In fact, I became a teacher because you inspired me to be like you.”
The old man, curious, asks the young man at what time he decided to become a teacher.
And the young man tells him the following story:
“One day, a friend of mine, also a student, came in with a nice new watch, and I decided I wanted it.I stole it, I took it out of his pocket.
Shortly after, my friend noticed the his watch was missing and immediately complained to our teacher, who was you.Then you addressed the class saying,
‘This student’s watch was stolen during classes today. Whoever stole it, please return it.”
I didn’t give it back because I didn’t want to.
You closed the door and told us all to stand up and form a circle.
You were going to search our pockets one by one until the watch was found.
However, you told us to close our eyes, because you would only look for his watch if we all had our eyes closed.
We did as instructed.
You went from pocket to pocket, and when you went through my pocket, you found the watch and took it.
You kept searching everyone’s pockets, and when you were done you said ‘open your eyes. We have the watch.’
You didn’t tell on me and you never mentioned the episode.
You never said who stole the watch either.
That day you saved my dignity forever.
It was the most shameful day of my life.But this is also the day I decided not to become a thief, a bad person, etc.
You never said anything, nor did you even scold me or take me aside to give me a moral lesson.
I received your message clearly.
Thanks to you, I understood what a real educator needs to do.
Do you remember this episode, professor?
The old professor answered, ‘Yes, I remember the situation with the stolen watch, which I was looking for in everyone’s pocket.
I didn’t remember you, because I also closed my eyes while looking.
’This is the essence of teaching:
If to correct you must humiliate; you don’t know how to teach.”
Brethren, pass this on if you think it is as beautiful as I do.
COME LORD JESUS!
I saw this on F.B. and shared hoping teachers would read it. Thanks for sharing it here. That’s what I call a wise man!
Amen, Sue!
This is beautiful! It’s the kind of integrity the world needs. I love it! I copied and pasted it to my face book page.
I thought it was so beautiful, too!
Amazing.
Thank you! This former teacher thinks it’s the sweetest thing I’ve read in a long time.❣️
Amen, Darline 🙂
That teacher’s method probably wouldn’t work in today’s public schools.
There’s no real sense of right/wrong to start with…it’s all about getting caught. Now the kid would hire his own lawyer or maybe the ACLU would go to bat for the poor esteem lacking child who more than likely is suffering from improper sexual identity or merely different cultural survival habits….blah, blah, blah.
Many moons ago me & a couple other kids saw a coke truck loaded with soda pop & the driver inside the store stocking so we decided to swipe some off the truck but we got caught & were publicly chewed out by the driver & we had to give up our swag. Back in the day that could gather a crowd. I never forgot that..not sure of the rest of my crew but that was how I learned one of life’s lessons the hard way. Thou shalt not meant Thou shalt not…end of story.