Noble profession...

We all are aware of the fact: Honesty is the best policy and teaching: educating the nation is the noblest of all profession.

But do we really think, believe and do so...???

Starting with our very morally educated and self-conscious parents whenever the question of setting the future goal/profession of their loving and beloved child comes their dream emerges out:’ I want my child to become a doctor, Engineer, lawyer or a banker’. Never or very hardly would you hear any knowledgeable parent saying; ‘I want my child to be educated and educate the nation builders of tomorrow’.

Ironically when we see our very own tiny-tots stepping the stones for schooling and rolling the dices for gaining certified-knowledge, we again make the unjustifiable and gratuitous demand of getting the best of education, with proper schooling-environment, the best teaching services at any cost and that also under the leadership and guidance of a good principal!

But the distressing and unfortunate reality that bites is that students and candidates right after completing their graduation are encouraged or advised by possibly anyone (even by respective guardians) around either to leave the country of avoiding the mere chances of getting ruined/spoiled and for settling down in big/professional organizations (both in public and private sectors) or to migrate abroad for the lucrative chances of earning foreign currency.

Hardly do we find anyone even thinking for once of coming to the field of education professionally and create tomorrow’s nation - builders.

And those who do come to cradle in teaching as the ultimate profession are considered as the ones not being able to cope up or having the chances of making it anywhere else!

However for these kinds of people who can’t place themselves anywhere else and come for teaching in mediocre schools/colleges they ultimately stand out as commercial businessmen earning few coins for the sake of running the family. The word ‘teaching’ becomes even a part-time jobs for few drop-outs! Such low a level has teaching itself has earned as an occupation in our society.

Again in cases of marriages, the parents of a bride would not lend her hand to a school/college teacher because the word teaching normally as a career is looked down to have a lower status-symbol in our societal perspective. An engineer/doctor as a son-in-law sounds to be a better trade!

Simultaneously for the in-laws , they prefer teaching to be the best possible work for their daughter-in-law , irrespective whether she likes it or not, and whether she is fit enough for it or not! It is because being a part-time teacher would consume very little of her time and she would have to focus little or concentrate less in her career and devote all of herself only to make her in-laws healthy, happy and glad!

My dear readers, have you ever thought that how can we expect and demand our next generation to have a good, solid and educated background with proper, ethical and moral ideology when they are under the black, deceptive hands and guidance of tutors who mostly are but just teachers by name? How can we call them teachers who in spite of teaching in the schools/colleges invite students personally and open up coaching centres and earn commercial money from students: be rich or poor in the name of teaching? Sometimes many are even heard and caught red-handed for leaking out valuable exam question papers by taking bribe.

It has also been seen and thoroughly observed now-a-days that teachers provide certain notes to the students from one single note-book of a particular writer/publication that students have to learn their lesson from. All they do is just memorize the words as instructed and puke out in the exam hall, word-by-word! This seriously damages the tender seeds of creativity that lights in every child’s heart and blocks their world of imagination.

And we the foolish parents are happy at the end of the day be getting a report card in our hands showing all As thinking that oh my child is a real talent!

What have these teachers got to teach that we as parents want our children to learn from them?

It is high time that the whole picture be changed. Napoleon said ‘Give me an educated mother and I will give you an educated nation’.

A real, principled student and a good human heart would never ever allow anything unscrupulous, deceitful or dishonesty in the name of something as sanctified and pure as teaching and would rather strive to get it proved as the best of all occupation: the noble profession.

However support from government, non-government, social and public awareness can recover the overall scenario. Government should at least re-think and try to up-grade the pay-scale so that freshly-graduated students feel interested and inspired to share what they have learnt with full job security and provide the finest of education in the name of noble profession!