Teachers day celebrations - some morbid thoughts The Teachers day celebrations were marked by preaching of thoughts regarding the role of an ideal teacher and the expectations of the society from a teacher. We all agree on the vital role of a teacher for building up model citizens for the nation. Inculcating a sense of placing the community welfare above the individual interest as a common habit since childhood is considered to the first step in the building of a nation.If this culture is reinforced at each succeeding stages of the education system, this can be a very efficient and effective step in the building of a welfare state. The family also plays a vital role to supplement the job of the teacher. More than often, we compare the past with the present in a fault-finding tone. To be more precise, we blame the moral degradation of the present-day youth for this steep fall in public morality. Little do we realize that there had been a sea-change in the concept of morality in every layer of society with the change in the socio-economic structure over the years. The Teaching community has also not been left untouched with it. The teachers used to command respect from the society in the past.Though he did not possess the wealth, his wisdom placed him in a position of reverence. It is this respect which has drawn many persons in its fold. In to-days world of show-business, the respect for wisdom has yielded to the power of money. The rating of individual worth is gauged by the amount of wealth you produce and not by the knowledge you possess.The teaching community has not also lagged behind in the competition of earning money. The result is: Education is incomplete in schools or colleges. Education or Coaching centres are mushrooming in all parts of the country.Riding through the barriers of the examination system may be beyond the reach of your children if you are not able to put them in one of these model centres of current system of education. This puts a question mark to the efficacy of the noble advice thrown to the teaching community time and again over the years from the national platform. In the absence of any widespread change in the outlook of the society, such talks are bound to fall on deaf years and the same set of hackneyed phrases would be thrust again and again. Probably, induction of new thoughts and ideas are the means to take us out from these bondage of thoughts. Like a dazed patient who needs shock therapy to come to normal state, our society may need some sort of shock treatment to bring us out from the stupor. But a million dollar question is : Is our society ready to absorb the shock ?
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:54:36 +0000
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