"Now in the womb of yesterday, today is being conceived and the birth of today gives rise to the challenges of tomorrow. So there is continuity between the past, the present and the future. This is being carried forward by the educational institutions and also through them by the teachers." Again, "the teacher was there in the past. He in the system at present. He will be there in future. He is an integral part of education. He continues through the ages as a central figure to guide and build the destiny of the country and mankind." The society by and large looks up to the teacher as a pathfinder, pole-star or light-house to carry the torch of learning forward and to alleviate men and women and distress and depression towards higher levels of thought and action in morality and intellect."

The concern of the teacher is to make a learning society by providing education from the womb to the tomb. That is way Tagore says, "A teacher can never truly teach unless he himself continues to learn." Teacher education is not teaching the teacher how to teach. It is needed for kindling the initiative of the teacher, for keeping it alive, for minimizing the evils of "hit and miss" process and for saving time, energy, money and trouble of the teacher and the taught. So teacher education is that knowledge, skill and ability which is relevant to the life of "teacher as a teacher". A course in teacher-education should seek to reshape the attitudes, remodel the habits and in a way to reconstitute the personality of a teacher.

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