Teachers are the enlighteners and shapers of the younger generation's thoughts. Kalinin once said: "What is the meaning of education? This is the psychological morality that affects students. It is necessary to influence students in a certain direction throughout the student period of more than ten years, that is, to make students adults. "
After children enter school, the development and cultivation of their knowledge, intelligence, morality, outlook on life and personality are closely related to the enlightenment and shaping of teachers. Not only that, teachers also play an important role in the healthy growth of children. Teachers are engineers who shape students' minds, health care teachers who make students grow up healthily, and builders of social spiritual civilization, which will directly affect the construction of social material civilization. Because of this, the party and the state have high hopes for teachers.
In addition, "whenever students feel that they are students, they will have a sense of' learning from teachers' and a sense of' students'. They must study and listen to the teacher's guidance. "This attribute plays a leading role in students' study and life, and objectively requires teachers to play a leading role in the education process. However, the leading role of education does not belong to the teacher. Teachers can arrange and replace students. Teachers can treat students as "blank paper", "bottles" and "jars".
Transplanting the cultural and scientific achievements accumulated by predecessors into his mind, because the object of teachers' education is students with initiative and enthusiasm, affirming teachers' leading role does not mean denying students' subjective initiative in the education process. On the contrary, students' initiative and enthusiasm are the result of teachers' purposeful, planned and organized training. Therefore, the initiative and enthusiasm of students is an important symbol to measure the leading role of teachers.
It can be seen that teachers play a leading role in the whole process of teaching and learning, or from a cognitive point of view. This is why we should establish a correct view of teachers. Obviously, it is wrong to think that teachers should give up their leading role.
However, the realization of teachers' leading role is conditional, and whether its leading role can be played is closely related to teachers' own professional level, ideological level, work level and objective working conditions.
The role of teachers in social development is closely related to the role of education in the development of human society. Education and teachers are indispensable for human beings to pass on long-accumulated social spiritual wealth, including cultural and scientific knowledge, literature and art, social thoughts and philosophical thoughts from generation to generation, otherwise the transmission of human cultural heritage will be interrupted and human society will not be able to continue and develop.
Teachers are disseminators of human cultural and scientific knowledge, social moral standards and behavioral norms, and play a bridge role in the inheritance and development of human society. Ushinski, a Russian educator, once said, "Teachers are the intermediary between all noble and great figures in the past history and the new generation ... He thinks they are the living link between the past and the future". Because of this link, mankind has a bright future.
However, because the education of a certain society is always restricted by the political and economic system of a certain society, the role played by teachers in the society with class opposition also reflects the requirements of a certain class. Objectively, teachers always consciously or unconsciously cultivate their own heirs for the needs of the ruling class at that time. However, we cannot deny the role of teachers in spreading and developing the whole human culture.
Under socialist conditions, the nature of education has changed fundamentally, and so has the role of teachers. Education plays an extremely important role in realizing the four modernizations of socialism, because socialist modernization needs a large number of talents, and "whether a school can train qualified talents for socialist construction and whether it can train educated workers with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique and socialist consciousness depends on teachers", so the work of teachers will directly affect the success or failure of the four modernizations of society, the national quality and the future of the motherland.
Teachers play an eternal role in social development, which is determined by the eternity of education. Lenin called the phenomenon of education an eternal category, because as long as human society exists, education is needed and the teaching profession is indispensable. Even if the class is eliminated, the teacher's career will last forever, and the teacher's career and society will survive.
Teachers' labor tasks and characteristics determine that education must have a certain quality to complete the task.