Is teaching child's play?
I am surprised at the way educational institutions all over Bangladesh are degrading the noble profession of teaching. It's almost like a coordinated effort to establish the fact that anyone can be a teacher, provided the person has a Masters, preferably from abroad. Is that the only thing needed to be a teacher? I see my friends coming back from abroad with Masters and immediately getting a job at any of the private universities around the city. And I wonder, what happened to the need for experience to be a university teacher? How can someone become a university teacher with just a Masters? Doesn't that person need experience? Does a degree reflect the person's ability to teach? Then, every PhD holder would prove to be a brilliant teacher. When will these institutions sober and start employing 'actual' teachers instead of 'students' posed as teachers?
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