What Is an Artist?

What is an Artist?

By definition an artist is a person skilled in one of the arts of painting, sculpture, music, or writing. Depending on your perspective someone that you believe is an artist someone else might not agree. In life an artist is someone who can create or do something that is truly inspirational and can be admired by everyone. This could be anything from a small painting or picture to one of the many wonders of the world such as the Pyramids or the Sistine Chapel. If one really thinks about it, in some small way every member of the human race could be looked at as an artist at any given time.

However there is one type of artist that most people don't think about very often. Teachers are probably one of the most profound artists in today's society. When you really think about it teachers are very key to our society and require the mastering of multiple skills. If it were not for many of the teachers I have had during my school career I would not be able to accomplish many of the things place I front of me in life.

Teaching is probably the most pure form of art but people never sit and think of it in that manner. Think of how we communicate and interact with people, sure parents teach some of these skills but most are shown to you by teachers in a classroom where they teach you by applying the task. Most of our adolescent years of life are spent in a school with people we may know or not know, like or dislike, but the one common factor is always a teacher. From observing we can learn how to successfully communicate to a body of people and learn how to cope with people of many different backgrounds. Teaching is about learning the capacity for your students to understand a given topic and then progressing them to a level that seems unreachable in the minds of most. Teachers are artist that ask us question that we may not fully understand and require us to think but then provide us with the necessary skills and mind set to be able to find the answers by independent critical thinking processes. If that is not a form of art in today's modern society then we should really start to question many aspects of our daily lives because critical thinking skills are something that we will have to apply every day of our lives.

In China teachers are a very large part in teaching skills to their students in the form of giving them assistance when they struggle. For example, in a math class if a student is having trouble understanding a given concept the teacher will bring the student to the front of the class room and give them a problem to work out on the board. This allows for the teacher as well as the other students in the class