Sufi Teachers and Redefining the Traditional Student-Teacher Relationsh

Sufi Teachers and Redefining the Traditional Student-Teacher RelationshipWhat does it mean-and more important, what should it mean--to be educated? (58) A response to Spayds begs another question. Is education the objective itself or the means to the objective? For some people education is just a degree, a piece of paper framed on the wall. One tush say, a person with a diploma has received an education, but it is not certain that the person is educated.This paper relates to those individuals who use education as a means to reach their objective. For them, education is not a straight take out with a definitive start and finish. It is a journey full of juncture and choices, which require direction from a guide. For a pupil, the teacher is that guide. The teacher teaches the student how to find the right way in his journey and from time to time, dish redefine students objective. The teachers role in a students journey is a substitution issue for a red-fruited education. A teache rs methodology and the relationship amongst student and teacher greatly affect the content of education and its relevance to real life. A students role is equally important in an impelling teacher-student relationship. As a receiver of information and training, the student must watch over and love the teacher and also have keen interest in the subject matter.This paper is intended to focus on the importance of a teaching methodology, content and philosophy of teaching and learning for an effective and fruitful student-teacher relationship.A dramatic example of a powerful teacher-student interaction is put together in the Sufi Order and the way the Dervish teach their students. By perceptiveness the teacher-student relationship in the Sufi Order, one may... ...espect and admiration for the teacher in addition to having a keen interest in the subject matter.A Sufi Masters relationship with his student, however dramatic it may be, is the most fertile and rewarding model for a l ife-long student-teacher relationship.Works CitedHelminski, Kabir. Dervishhood.http//www.sufism.org/books/sacred/dervish.html(9 March 2002).Spayde, John. learning in the Key of Life. The Presence of Others Voices and Images That Calls for Response. Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz. New York Bedford St.Martins, 2000 , 58-64.Lessing, Doris. On Sufism and Idries Shahs The Commanding self (1994). January 31, 1999.http//www.sufis.org/lessing_commandingself.html(9 March 2002).Initiation and search for a murshid. Hazrat Sultan Bahu . November 24, 2000.http//www.bahu.co.za/hazrat_sultan_bahu.htm(9 March 2002).