Education is the key to build an ideal nation. But an educated nation fails to be an ideal nation only when this education is confined only to the paper and pen. And the main reason for this is the lack of proper guidance because if the Guru is confined to the paper and pen how will the disciple fined the existence of consciousness beyond the paper. Education these days is confined to paper, so the door of conscience is blocked if you search for it. For this reason students forget how to respect the teachers.
Unemployment is one of the social illness today. As a result, many are choosing a wrong path, and some are taking the decisions like suicide. But one of the main reasons for this unemployment is lack of proper knowledge. If we review the certificate holders who work all day and night, it will be seen that the knowledge gained during the academic life is limited only to the books, many forget the previous day’s reading even after the exam. So there is doubt as to how much this education actually effective for the real life.
The standard of GPA 5 is so high that creativity becomes irrelevant. Parents pay more attention as to how much mark their child would earn in the school exams than what the child has learned and what has achieved. They are so busy to push the students to learn book based knowledge that practical or learning actual knowledge has become too hard.
Another bad thing for the nation is that educated generation feel ashamed of doing hard work. We Bengalis assume that the place of an educated person is only in the office, not in the field. What the proof that a person is educated to work in an office whether corporate or government. In most cases, the educational institution failed to provide entrepreneur for the nations as it is the production house of subservient of the existing system. Moreover, for our social mindset, the educated youth are forced to choose unemployment rather than engaging in a lower standard job. However, this educated nation should have understood that no hard work is ignorable. Whether its farmer or corporate officer no one is superior or inferior than the opposite one rather both are necessary for the nation.
Previously, money or power had been used for ensuring the job but it has become a common scenario in education sector nowadays. Of course, it would not happen if we had moral values or our educational institution would provide moral values to the students.
That Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, who himself led the entire life on foot, but fought the battle to educate the society throughout his life. He created a extraordinary example of conscience and values in real life. He was an example of self-worth and self-respect. But today, where to meet such a teacher? Is it possible to become a real teacher if we are the best in the class? Is it possible to find humanity and values in the curriculum?
Those teachers, who know that there is no dinner in their house, without going to collect food, they choose the school to teach only two or three students. We have seen many teachers who are not highly educated but they had and have morals they lodged in the heart of their students and those teachers are most respectful and they are the real hero who make the nation to go forward. They should be called “Guru”, not those we are actually the puppet of the existing mechanism and are the part of beneficiaries of the wrong and unjust mechanism.
Manowar Hossain Asim, a teacher of Govt. Naldanga Bhushan Pilot Secondary School in Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj, accused of having immoral relationship with a woman and giving obscene pictures of himself to various women. Another one made a love relationship with his student. The teacher took the pictures of personal moments and saved those pictures in the gallery and then sent the same to the student’s future-in-laws, resulting the breakup of the student’s marriage. Again on March 23, Moazzem Hossain, the headmaster of Lohani Para High School in Badarganj Upazila of Rangpur district, was accused of again and again due to irregularities and corruption one after the other, but he managed every time through money earned from the school and interest.
It is said that teacher is next to the parents. Poet Qazi Quader Newaz’s poem “Teacher’s Dignity” describes that too. A teacher is able to make a person right or wrong. A teacher should have the highest place in a student’s life. Teachers are the nation builders. A nation cannot give proper respect to teachers, that nation cannot sustain at all. But if there is lack of real teachers, the whole nation shall go to stray.
Athar Noor |
