Time now is 4 in the evening...have hell a lotta work to do but am sitting in front of the computer and blogging! Sometimes blogging takes the pressure off you - its like talking to a good friend - atleast I feel so!
So, now, as I am having quite a few tasks in hand and do not know which one to perform first(Prioritization!!) or the order in which I am going to do them, I stopped every thing for a moment and have taken up blogging! May be things will be okey when I return back to work...atleast my mind will be little relaxed!
As I have suddenly turned up here - dont have any topic in mind to specifically write of - till now! I just am wondering if I should continue and finish this blog or just close the window and go back to work! I guess I would continue with the blog......... oh...yeah - I wanted to write about teaching some time back, but wasn't able to do it then! Lemme do that now - but not in much detail! Teaching is one of the professions where I would have been more satisfied - more happy and ofcourse more peaceful! I would still love to be a teacher...but I have practical problems in
choosing teaching as a career!
The first and the foremost thing is the pay a teacher gets! I just am not able to digest the fact that even the best of teachers are offered very nominal pay! Just compare the pay a fresh software techie or a BPO employee gets today!! I find it really tough to face this fact! Given this fact how many good students do you think will opt for taking up teaching today - ofcourse there are exceptions - there are people who still live their dream inspite of these barriers....but consider normal people...we are busy chasing Engineering and Medical degrees as if there is nothing else in this world! Soceity as a whole has to accept the blame for this - Soceity I
guess includes U and Me!
The second thing being - the teachers not given the respect they really deserve! A teacher, according to me, is more responsible in shaping a person's character than the parents themselves! Teaching is a process...it is the responsibilty of moulding a person's character, in making him/her a good citizen for tommorow....it is equipping the person with the necessary knowledge...imparting attitude...but all these gets overshadowed...and finally we have come to a stage where we beleive the school that produces the best results (in Boeard exams) is the best school...and the similar applies to teachers!
When I think of what can be done about this....I am not too sure...there needs a sea change in the attitude of the people! The whole school atmosphere here has to change....a school should be a place where a child is moulded in such a manner that the best out of each child is extracted, the identification of a child's character has to be done....getting good marks in the examination alone should not be the aim of the students, teachers and as a whole the school !! And for that the soceity has to change - now the soceity and the systems respect only people get good marks....so ultimately students with other talents but score less in exams are not encouraged!
Anyway - Am running now - will update as soon as possible!!
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