every thing in live as to start with first, the mother, father and a teacher, well life given by our parents, it Teacher/Guru who provide how to lead life he set example to model our basic knowledge, and seed us with discipline and to respect others. we are living in a teacher less world and with all technology, build round, in my opinion, the value of teachers has been deeply compromised, we need to crate awareness for next generation to understand the value of teacher at their lives
my son used to study in selaqui.Regularly he was beaten up by teachers,who used to share student goods,the Headmaster,a U.S trained fellow came to school drunk.What role models for six lakhs of Indian currency in the name of public education.
Teahers ranked higher than gods as per the Hindu traditions. matha, pitha, guru and Deivam so goes the sequence. until independence, literacy was below 10% among the population. owning land, cattle and being born in upper caste provided privilege and respect. but the learned persons were respected equally or more irrespective of birth or wealth.
with independence the schools grew in mumbers and the educated population increased. learning process now trancends the class rooms in schools and colleges, into parents, visual printed media, internet etc, the neighbours, and the locality. consequently, the aura around the educated and the teachers lessened. they are just commodities now. the situation cannot be helped. we have to admit the reality of the situation with a tinge of sadness.
but still, the individuals among them who exhibit sincerety, leadership qualities are admired and decently rewarded.
Developing a Nation-Wide initiative for Education for Citizenship is National imperative to ensure that democracy continues and succeeds in India.For this the Teachers ought to be given a respectful position in the society.It ought to recognise that teaching is not a mean employment and no wise man consider it in itself as disgraceful.The Teachers need be protected suitably as such. by lvsrao.
It is indeed a good write-up about teachers.Teachers are considered as the third parent and they need to be respected and cared for by the students and the community at large so that they can give the best to the young generation to make them our future citizens.However,this is not being translated to action by the governments.There is now a huge disparity in the pay scales of the teachers in private schools and that of government schools,with a higher pay scale in government service.Now,with the Right for Education Act being passed,when it comes to implimenting the same,all teachers need to be protected.like minimum wages being given to workers,there should be a minimum salary for teachers too,which should not be less than the approved salary of goverment aided schools.If we do not protect the teachers how can we expect them to give their best effort and time?Then there is the question of teachers to student ratio for different levels of education.If this is not adhered to,the quality of education could suffer.All said and done one should realise that the government collects education cess while we pay pofession tax.The Chennai Corporation has more than 150 crores of unutilised funds.Why is this not used is a issue one and all need to ask the State and Central Government.If the Minister of Education has no time to ask this question,he should relegate that power to some more competant Agency in the private sector to a Governing Body. K V S Krishna
Here is a list of reasons why and techniques how you can appropriately disrespect your pesky teachers, and your old mother.
Since teachers dont make profits for us, ignore them and what they say.
Since teachers want us to be disciplined, make fun of them even when we leave school and college.
Since you have paid school fees, you owe nothing to whatever the teacher taught you - unity, integrity, hard work, discipline, commitment, reciprocation.
All these are false, intangible concepts which are merely good in books. Once out of education, we can keep these safely aside in pursuit of what is really important in life - money, prestige and high society English.
Since being a mother does not produce any profit, and since being a teacher does not make you any money, both mothers and teachers are naturally uneconomic investments.
Shun and ignore their efforts, they are not profit making and so they are not wealth creation.
A mother's work and a teacher's work simply do not add to the GDP, to economic growth, or to a desirable urban lifestyle.
Integrity, reciprocation, responsiblity are ideas to keep rural India under control, not parts of the economy.
So according to Milton, Keynes, Greenspan, Globalisation experts, India cannot move forward unless expenditure on mothers and teachers is cut down.
Not one survey has hard stats to prove that mothers add economic value, that teachers add economic value.
Re: How to disrespect your good teachers
by Devdutt Nayak on Sep 05, 2010 03:23 AM
Since mothers and teachers perform the marginal task of bringing you up - which as 50 percent of the world's population amply prove - they grow into adults without going to school and many are orphans - we should ideally do away with these economically loss making units - mothers and teachers - and replace them with advanced machines that feed us and help us grow as per final specifications.
You see, a mother spends about 20 years investing worthless effort.
And a teacher wastes your productive childhood by boring things and big stupid lectures where you feel sleepy.
So we can replace teachers by computer animation programs.
This is an entirely profit-making enterprise and will give great ROI.
Importantly, you can have full control over thoughts and habits and knowledge of students who grow up in an automated education and nurturing system.
It is high time that Indian Govt stopped making a big thing about how great these mothers and teachers are.
Instead it should put in place an ultra-modern plan to automate all tasks relating to upbringing of children into a central Govt supercomputer.
It will also help fight the recession and employ all IT workers on the bench.
Since India must grow at 9 percent at all costs, this is the best way.
Unemployed mothers and teachers can be used in garment and sanitation sectors.
They only talk about clean / dirty, right / wrong. So we must use them in urban sanitation, food supply etc.
