Teachers Deserve Respect

A new pupil, who has been already kicked out of three school, was brought to the school. One teacher came to class, looked at a new pupil and thought: "Where only such people are from…" The second teacher came, saw a new pupil, and said with anger:-There is no lack of you.. The third teacher came to class. - Do we have a new pupil? -he rejoiced. He went to a new pupil, shook his hand, looked into his eyes, smiled and said,"Good morning!..I was waiting for you!...The teacher is a person who makes a child feel so precious about him/herself. In our life where ever we reach, when we look back we remember some one so special who was not from our blood but always supported us and for whom we would like to give all the credit of our success, a teacher.

What the kids learn from teachers at  a young age will most likely stay with them for the rest of their lives.  In this context, we can say that teachers are such who see something in us and inspire us, guide us and then we move on to the path of being someone of a prestigious position, a doctor, an engineer, a pilot, a manager and so on. But what do we do for those teachers? Even we can't respect them and we think that teaching is an inferior job and when we can't do anything significant in our lives then we land up being a teacher. Few days back, one of the passengers in micro bus on which I was travelling was talking with his friend that his sister is going to give S.L.C. examination this year and he had already planned what he is going to make his sister do during her vacation, i.e teaching the primary level students. As she is not so talented there are no other career options for her, so it would be a good experience for her and after all being a female teaching is a very good option as it's only a 10 to 5 job. I am sure that not only him but many people of our society has the similar opinion.

But, in reality teachers are an extremely important part of any society for multiple reasons. They are those who can turn a child into a leader of the next generation. And it is believed that every child should have a caring adult in their lives to move forward and often times that adult is a teacher. The teacher is an architect of any future generation. So to assume the responsibilities of a teacher one has to be competent, morally upright and knowledgeable. It's only the person who is himself/herself a teacher knows the challenges he/she has to face inside and outside the classroom. Besides academics, students also learn teacher's modes of dressing, style of conversation, punctuality, hard work, honesty obedience etc. which are the values of our society. Though many may have landed on teaching profession by chance, but they will always appreciate it and will be satisfied in what they are doing and they must be learning such things which can never be learnt in any other profession. After all,  a study done jointly conducted by economists at Harvard and Columbia Universities had proved that, the overall effect of a bad teacher is similar to the fourth grade students missing 40 percent of the school year.

Every society is heterogeneous with so many kinds of people and their belief but every belief system respects a teacher. Even our religion respects it, Hinduism has emphasized the importance of finding a guru who can impart transcendental knowledge. According to Buddhism, it is essential to realize that teacher is ultimately important because he/she can lead us to our own inner wisdom-our own 'inner guru'. Christianity and Islam too think teachers as the ambassadors of god. Here, I would not like to compare teacher with God but would like to request that we must give them the respect for their role that they play in the transformation of our society. And teachers deserve the respect.