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| Observing Teachers Day | | |
Celebration of Teachers Day, every year on September 5, has come to
become a ritualistic exercise. While celebrating the day every year in
schools and colleges, we hardly par attention to its significance,
which is to accord respect and honour to the teachers, who make the
pupils true citizens, by imparting them the education about higher
values of life. Long lectures and sermons are issued by the
dignitaries, who are invited to grace the functions held on the day.
The ministers issue messages through the media, highlighting the
importance of the day, laying the stress on ideal teacher and taught
relationship. But nothing practical and concrete is done to ensure
this relationship. Unfortunately the relations between the two that
existed in the past, are slowly and gradually deteriorating. The fault
lies at both ends as well as in the society as a whole. In these days
of deteriorating moral values and commercialism ruling the roost in
every sphere of life, education is no exception. The educational
institutions have become commercial shops, where education is sold as
any other commodity against the price, which one is prepared to pay.
In the private sector some capitalists, including criminals and those
having anti social background, who have accumulated huge wealth
through underhand means, have become educationist by opening posh and
high fly schools and colleges. After investing huge amount of money in
these institutions, their soul objective is to earn profit and
accumulate wealth through earnings from these institutions. Naturally
the true spirit of learning is missing. Then it are only the wealthy
parents who can send their wards in these private schools in the
corporate sector. Unfortunately, the things are no better in
denominational schools, being run by some benevolent trusts and
organizations of several communities. With teachers only concerned
with their salaries and perks, they hardly command respect from the
teachers since they pay least attention to the over all development of
their students and never exert to have grasp of the problems being
faced by the young taught. The conditions in the government schools
are still worse. Although compared to the teachers in the private
schools, the government teachers are paid higher salaries and as a
result of liberal grants given to the government schools they are
equipped with better infrastructure like spacious grounds, school
buildings, libraries and laboratories, yet the results shown by these
schools are worse than shown by private schools. Where transfers of
teachers take place against parting with the money to higher ups,
including the ministers concerned and the latter interfering even in
the transfers and posting of teachers at primary level and instead of
right person being fitted at the right place, competence, sincerity
and dedication of a teacher is ignored and in its place exchange of
money is preferred and the teachers instead of paying due attention to
the development of their taught, are more concerned in earning extra
bucks through private tuitions, no better results in the relationship
between teachers and taught can be expected than the one witnessed
recently in Ujjain, where a professor died after being roughed up by a
group of students.
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