Teachers are the architects of any developing nation. It makes me feel on top every time I remember the quote: “Teaching is the profession that creates all other professions.” But unfortunately I couldn’t understand the fact that very few of us are in this profession by choice and most of us are in this profession by chance. In the last three years, I have hardly found one or two students who have taken pride in acknowledging the existence of this profession.
When a child is born, parents begin to see their child in a doctor’s apron or engineer’s outfit. Even my parents saw the same dream as the parents of other teachers. Even when we advise our students, we also show them the dream of being a doctor or an engineer. We as parents or teachers do not want our children or students to be the future teachers. My conscience is always bombarded with various questions. Why don’t we encourage them to become teachers? And then without consulting any books or experts, I get the answers and have to shut up. How can we encourage our children for this prestigious profession when we know that the world is made up of millionaires? Whether from the public sector or the private sector, we all know about the poor financial conditions of teachers, the salary they receive and the exploitation they face every day. Teachers in the public sector are not paid on time and teachers in the private sector are not paid enough.
Another major issue I ran into was that we came to this profession reluctantly when we couldn’t cross the standards of modern criteria. And we are left thinking that we have no other options except to test our teaching skills. We join with enthusiasm, but our level of motivation drops with each passing day for one reason or another. So our talents are shackled by the exploitation of the authorities and we remain confined to the jobs assigned only to us and don’t bother to suffer any additional pain.
Browsing the internet I found a summary of an interesting seminar that took place in France or in any other country (I don’t remember the exact name). That seminar was to discuss the problems facing teachers worldwide. As the discussion progressed, the teachers brought up common problems they faced. (Less salary, disrespect, exploitation by management, job security, late payment, etc.). An old teacher silently listened to the arguments, when the opportunity came to put his point of view, he expressed it very calmly. He argued: “What do we want? Don’t we have the nation’s most valuable resources? They are far better than any of the wealth in this world. Make them our wealth and the nation’s wealth and surely we will.” be the richest people on earth. Tell me who will be better, millionaire or us?”
I did not read the full content of that seminar abstract and was motivated and excited to put our whole hearts into teaching and turning invaluable resources into nation assets.
I finally came to the conclusion that if we are not sincere and hard-working in our teaching methods today, I am sorry to say, “We are stealing your future, and we are just as much a part of every other theft that happens in this world.” Remember, we may not be damned in the eyes of the worldly jurisdiction, but we will be damned in the jurisdiction of the almighty Creator.’
So let’s start on a positive note and be honest with our assignments, if some of us have already started then keep up the positive momentum and there is no going back.