Once upon a time, two children were skating on a
frozen lake. That was a chilly cloudy afternoon but the children did not mind
at all. Suddenly, the ice broke off and one of the children fell down into the
water. When the other child saw that his
friend was drowning under the ice, he took a stone and hit the ice strongly
until he broke it and rescued his friend.
When firefighters arrived, they wanted to know how the
child saved his friend’s life since it was impossible to break a thick layer of
ice with his delicate hands.
An old man who was there said: ‘I know how he got it’.
‘How?’ the firefighters asked, and he answered: ‘There was nobody around to tell him how to do it’
This story is aimed to make the teacher think about
the need of taking into account the arguments given to students. It is the teacher’s responsibility to build up the
student’s self-confidence as well as help them to achieve their goals.
Teachers should not transmit their own limitations and
beliefs to students because children are able to do incredible things.
