Teachers
In 2003 or 2004, one day I got an invitation from the Swedish Ambassador to tea at his residence. I didn't know him. So I was a bit surprised to have the invitation. I called the embassy. They informed me Dr. Cristina Nygrene, associate professor of Stockholm University, Sweden was going to visit Bangladesh for a short period. She won't be able to meet all the friends in Dhaka within this short period, and that's why she requested the Ambassador to invite them to tea at his place so that she could meet them all at a time. As I was Cristina's Bengali teacher in 2001, I had been invited too. That explained everything. That's the amount of respect they show to the teachers in first world. Why not us? The other day I was going through a piece of article that says the difference between the first world and third world is not money or anything, it's just attitude! They had the positive attitude, they believed in themselves, worked hard and they are there. Working with the foreign embassies in Dhaka for the last one decade as part time teacher, I have had the same experience. Teachers are highly respected by them. But unfortunately here the picture is different. There is a widespread saying here, the person who gets no good job ends up teaching. Of course, there are exceptions. But to some extent it's true.
Education is one of the greatest services provided by teachers in our country. It is vital for anything. The role played by teachers becomes a very important component and in fact it can be said that they are in a way our nation builders. For any student, education and character are the basic foundations and it is laid by teachers as well as parents. They tend to instil values, attitudes and behaviours in children right from childhood.
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