A Theoretical  Teacher

Once there lived a renowned teacher who used to preach all the people around about various topics. He used to travel from one place to other and used to share his knowledge with the people who meet him. One fine morning he had decided to renounce this materialistic world as well his preaching and settle in a peaceful place and meditate. Having decided this, he started walking :After several hours of tiring walk, he reached a dense forest & he was over whelmed to see the serenity and  he decided to stay in the forest. After searching for a suitable place to sit and meditate ,he found  a place  surrounded by large number of trees with heavy trunks. He was happy that he found a peaceful place to meditate, but suddenly all his happiness disappeared as he heard thousands of parrots chirping perching on the trees. He was initially unhappy that he got back to the sound but certainly the sounds made by the birds are far melodious than the human sounds.
Next five minutes something amazing has happened. Even before the sage could realize all the birds started occupying his shoulders, head and what surprised him was their quickness in repeating every sound any sound he made. Having understood the quick response from the parrots ,his original quality of teacher arouse. Now he wanted to teach them something. He started thinking that any hunter may come to this groove having already been encroached by him and may harm all the beautiful parrots. He never wanted these parrots to be killed by any hunter, so he thought that he would teach them the lesson to save themselves.
Next morning,when all the parrots surrounded him and started chirping ,he started singing a song which he had composed to save their lives :
“We are Parrots we are Parrots, we know how to fly, we know how to fly…….
We should fly when a hunter comes ! we should fly when the hunter comes.
The moment he sang this song all the parrots started repeating the same . Now it has become a ritual in that large Groove that every morning all the parrots sing the song in unison”We are Parrots we are Parrots we know how to fly,We know how to fly we should fly when the hunter comes and we should fly when the hunter comes !!!
The teacher felt very happy that he taught all the Parrots a song to save themselves from the hunters and has decided to move from that place to a different place where he can find peace.
It was hardly one day that the teacher left this dense groove that a hunter came to find his prey and he was led by this unison” of parrots and finally reached to find thousands of parrots together with great satisfaction and he was surprised to see all the birds are totally engrossed in singing the song but not a single Parrot moved away to escape from the hunter. The hunter spread his net over and all the Parrots were easily trapped in the net still singing the song
“We are Parrots we are Parrots,we can fly,we can fly…
We should fly when the hunter comes !! Now sadly…..
Moral : Theory is different from Practice .Learn things Practically.
** Note : In this story the teacher failed to teach Practically and by teaching the Parrots theory ,he also killed the natural skill of flying .Teachers lets not do this to our students !!





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