Weal And Woe - A Teacher Experiences All

A teacher experiences all.

In the good old days, teaching was considered as the noblest profession. A teacher was regarded as an image of God and treated with respect and reverence. For students, teachers were their ideals and they worshipped them. It was their dream to become a teacher in future. A teacher occupied a prominent and respectable position in society.

But gone are the good old days. Now teaching is the least preferred job. With flourishing professional courses and glamorous jobs in software and MNCs, no one aspires to become a ‘mere teacher’.

It is now considered a dull, boring and mundane job. At the same time, teaching has become the easiest job too. If nothing works out, the teaching line is always open. With hundreds of schools mushrooming everywhere, there is always a scarcity of teachers and one can easily get into the teaching profession. It is now ‘ a teacher by chance’ rather than ‘ a teacher by choice’.

With globalisation and modernisation, even the students’ respect for their teachers is dwindling. It is no exaggeration to say that in some elite schools students ridicule their teachers. At the same time, there are still students who touch their teachers’ feet for any important event or occasion.

Whatever said, I still consider teaching as a noble profession. The fact that all great and mighty people were once students guided and moulded by their teachers cannot be ignored or ruled out.

And teaching is not a mundane job. It is an exciting job. A teacher has to deal with lively characters with varied natures, attitudes, interests and temperaments. Everyday brings in a new experience. There is a different drama happening with one student or the other. There is no dearth of excitement and liveliness with a bunch of 40 to 45 students in each class. Of course, there is the stress of handling indisciplined ruffians but the entertainment we get from comic characters compensates the stress.