On 'Failure of teachers'
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This is a reply to the letter published in your daily on 12th June, titled `Failure of Teachers" written by Tanha Kashfia Kate. Of course, “teachers all over the world have the same aim, to encourage their students to learn and to become independent adults". But it is a matter of deep concern that the economic and social condition in which our teachers lead their life is the worst. The amount of salary they receive is too small to fulfill the basic needs of their family members. Socially, teachers are treated as third class citizens. Even we, the guardians of the students, do not show due respect to the teachers and forget that the future of our beloved children mainly depends on the very teachers. Again, if a teacher lives in a frustrating situation, it is very natural that the indication of his/her inner agony will be disclosed in the classroom by his/her speech and attitude. Private tuition is also the result of that absurd salary structure which creates the livelihood challenge they have to face. Students are punished brutally by those who do not have the minimum quality, in terms of educational or moral values, of being a teacher. Now-a-days, meritorious students do not want to be a teacher. So we can not expect grapes from a tamarind tree. Therefore, I think, the existing haphazard situation in education sector is for the complete failure of the State, not of the teachers.
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