Latent Teacher: The Enfolded Potentials for Enhanced Teaching

Teaching makes use of all excellent general qualities that are intrinsic and develop subliminally as people mature. The impact of education on the level and quality of one’s maturity determines the efficacy of one’s teaching too. This paper reviews and synthesises the evidence on latent teachers and awakened teachers: compares the empirical data for and against the natural teachers, enlists and emphasizes the generic skills, and confirms the weightage of latent potentials over the methods and approaches in education. Data sources include empirical studies and published literature available from websites. The review finds that teaching is a dynamic process just as human life is dynamic; and that the latent teacher within ought to be awakened to address the complex process of education. The findings suggest that educational reforms focusing on the techniques and methods of teaching without sharpening the latent teaching potentials bear little fruit.