Sunaina Malik
It would be quite apt to label a teacher as a gardener. A gardener beautifies a garden by providing a safe, sheltered and vigorous ambiance to the plants. In the similar way, a teacher is also liable to foster a child for his overall development of body, mind and soul. AS per Physic law an Iron bar, instead of having millions of electrons, is un able to conduct electricity unless and until connected by some external potential because all these electrons move in random direction with zero resultant. In the similar way a society is unable to burgeon if, it is devoid of teachers because it is only a teacher, who assembles randomly moving thoughts of an innocent child and gives them one direction, one path. This path, un doubtly leads towards success and contentment in life. To your revelation, this profession is one of the ancient professions of the world. Almost in every age, man falls in a dire need of a teacher but there has arrived a drastic change in the mind set of our society at large regarding our today’s teacher.
Today’s money minded society has forgotten that teaching was a profession of Prophets. Private school Mafia has turned this sacred job into a business of money making. Different tuition centers, running across India, have reduced teachers into a commodity kept in the market for open auction. This atmosphere has formed a layer of insulation on the prudence of our students which debars them to develop a sense of reverence and admiration for their teachers. In today’s scenario a student thinks that he or she can buy any teacher with money . In addition to this there is a swift rise in the incidence of insolence of our teachers at the hands of students across the country.
On 8th July, 2015 students targeted a teacher outside the Senate Hall in Calcutta University. The Chancellor of the university expressed his concern over worsening relations between teacher and student. In Kolkata, not even a single day passes without a teacher being assaulted. Even a Noted Educationists Sunanda Sanyal told in an interview given to (IANS) that what would be more unfortunate then seeing the teacher being nothing but punching bags, who so ever want can punch and slap them.
On the other hand, Govt. as well as society also held only a teacher guilty for spoiling the education standard of Govt. schools. To your revelation he is not the sole agency responsible for this. Following facts can prove it. (1) Govt. schools are crammed with a rejected lot of society. Students with sparkling mind are admitted in private schools by parents. (2) A Govt. school teacher is not co-operated by the parents of his students in making teaching learning a successful process. Indifference of parents is the second biggest reason responsible for poor education standard. (3)A Govt. school student is devoid of any definite base because there is no provision of admission of a child in Nursery classes in Govt. schools.
Keeping in view the above mention facts, I would appeal to the whole society to bless all the teachers by following blessing on the eve of Teacher’s day.
(1)Four sides criticism has lowered the confidence of a teacher. Build their poise by believing on them.
(2)Admire teaching as a reputable profession and teacher as a prominent and triumphant person of society.
(3)A teacher should be given high esteem and first rank salary like foreign countries where teachers are at high regard and considered as most brilliant and blooming class of society. According to them only a teacher can lay the foundation of a prosperous generation. This encouragement by Govt. and society enable them to prepare a generation which later in bring revolution in the form of discoveries and inventions.
(4)No doubt, recent order of screening of degrees of Rehbere Taleem teachers by J&K Govt. is an appreciable step. But I am very apologetic to say that before teachers, fake degree mafia must be put behind bars.
(5)A teacher must not be dishonored in front of his or her students during checking of classes by high officials because this would condense the deference of a teacher in the eyes of a student and he would no longer abide by a teacher.
In the end I would like to wish happy teacher’s day to all the teachers. May God facilitate them to recoup the vanished status of nobility, reverence and high admiration in the society?
