Towards Teaching Excellence

More than a mere profession, teaching is a mission-a mission to work towards the betterment of the society's welfare and prosperity. Based on the ideas of Swami Vivekananda, Swami Nityasthananda, the author of this book and an established scholar and thinker of the Ramakrishna Order, has compendiously addressed the challenges in the realm of teaching and learning. This book would motivate the teachers in achieving teaching excellence and thereby help them in educating and empowering the future generations to work towards social excellence.

More than a mere profession, teaching is a mission-a mission to work towards the betterment of the society's welfare and prosperity. Swami Vivekananda, a rare spiritual genius, philosopher and patriot rolled in one, was the greatest exponent of true and meaningful education and its relevance and bearing on the socio-cultural progress. Based on the ideas of Swami Vivekananda, Swami Nityasthananda, the author of this book and an established scholar and thinker of the Ramakrishna Order, has compendiously addressed the challenges in the realm of teaching and learning. He succinctly presents Swami Vivekananda's ideas on education and orients the readers towards the needs and methods of cultivating right attitudes and values by the teachers.

While systematic training of teachers in achieving teaching excellence has gained importance and effectiveness in the West, it is yet to manifest in a big way in India. This book would help the teachers to motivate themselves for achieving teaching excellence and thereby equip and empower the next generation to work towards social excellence. We hope this book will be received well by the all teachers and educationalists.

We are indebted to Prof. Sumita Roy and Mr. John Scarborough for valuable suggestions in improving the presentation. We also thank Dr. Alok Paul and Sri Srinivasa Chari for proofreading the text.

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