Teacher And Mentor

I personally liked the all my teachers in college a lot. With all due respect though whoever is been in engineering college (or for that matter I believe in any college) knows that the teachers are not totally competent in the subjects they are teaching.

When I was teaching in my third year I was teaching better than the teachers teaching in college .

I am not boasting. To support my argument here are the reasons

· My students told me that

· They paid money to learn from me.

· They recommended me to their juniors and siblings.

The major difference in the approach of teaching was that I was not teaching them , but mentoring them.

What I mean is that I was not teaching them what ideally should be taught but what I did practically for myself in that subject.

Like in the exam if you forget how to pass pointers to function you define them globally .

Which I ideally should not recommend but practically if you can make the program work in the exam even this way you pass . So an important trick to know .

What I want to stress is that mentors give better advice than teachers.

The difference between mentors and teachers is that mentors have done it ( preferably successfully) before and teacher is someone who knows about it but might not have done it before.

Mentors have done it themselves so they know minute details of things which helps them to convey practical details which work in that situation.

So next time someone tells you something know whether he is mentoring you or just teaching you.

Have a great day.