Have you ever realised that superheroes aren’t just fictional characters in comics and movies? Do you want to know what they look like in real life?

Let me introduce you to real-life superheroes that you didn’t realise you knew. They are your teachers. Yes, your teachers — the ones you generally think of as boring, strict, demanding or funny. They don’t wear capes or carry cool gadgets, yet their superpowers are real — how else could they help you discover the best in yourself, even the parts you didn’t know were there?

By making the most difficult concepts understandable to a class full of students reluctantly paying attention, teachers use the superpowers only they possess to get through to everyone. Their super senses easily tell them which student hasn’t grasped the lesson and which one is making excuses for not doing homework. Nothing escapes their x-ray vision, and they know what the backbenchers are up to at all times. They see, they hear and they know all that is going on in the class.

If all of this is not a superpower, then what is?

But teachers are not born with superpowers — they work hard to become capable of shaping young minds and lives. They strive every day. Each morning they step inside the class, they are on a rescue mission: to help their students out of the academic problems they are facing and carry them towards a better future and world.

Let’s check out some of the superpowers teachers possess. And, while we are at it, why don’t you reflect on what special........

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