October 15, 2011

Part of blame goes to teachers

Looking back to school and college days I realise how much teachers influence our interest in a subject. The teachers can make a subject boring and frustrating if their knowledge is shallow and their motivation is low.

We know that when we talk to an enthusiastic person we get inspired. Enthusiasm is contagious, just like frustration is contagious as well.

Majority of teachers are paid low salaries and there is no word called "promotion" in their career dictionary. Most of the teachers in this country of ancient "gurus" are underpaid.

Even the teachers of teachers, the faculty of B.Ed colleges, do not get enough to buy decent food and clothes for their families. Our universities treat them as beggars, following the exploitation pattern before the pre-socialistic revolutions. There is no minimum wages concept to protect the teachers from exploitation by greedy managements and even government agencies. So how can there be enthusiasm in teaching if ones career is perpetually in shambles?


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