SiEducation is the only medium through which we can achieve any highest position in the world and only an ideal teacher can impart better education, culture, art and qualities to the student. The place of a teacher in life is equal to that of a parent, because only a teacher gives proper guidance to the students in life and makes them capable of moving forward on the path of success. Knowledge cannot be attained in life without a Guru. Teachers are a mine of qualities, teachers are knowledgeable, expert, softspoken, farsighted, tolerant, good listenerspeaker, intelligent, encourager, researcher, curious, philanthropist, truthful, loyal, renunciant, virtuous, patient, nonaddictive. Teachers look at all their students from the same level, never discriminate. Teachers are in the role of craftsmen who transform their students into ideal students by enhancing them with art and qualities. In our country, we have got great teachers as social reformers.
Revolutionary Sun Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and his wife Krantijyoti Savitrimayi Phule, who established the first school for girls in India by enduring the hatred of the society to light the flame of women's education. Jyotibaji created history by educating his wife and making her an ideal teacher and then both of them together started a new revolution in the society by understanding the value of education. They endured people's taunts, abuses, insults, scorn; people threw stones, mud, and cow dung on them.
Even though the entire society was against them, the Phule couple selflessly sacrificed everything and kept the flame of education burning. If we even imagine their days of struggle for a moment, our soul shivers, they endured such an unbearable painfilled struggle to lay the foundation of an educated society. Gradually, many great social reformers established institutions to make education accessible to the masses. The only purpose of these educational institutions was to provide equal rights to education to everyone without any discrimination or discrimination.
If we look at the level of education in the modern era, its form seems completely opposite as compared to the last few decades. From the primary level of education of children i.e. nursery to PhD, education is provided as a package according to the money, in which everything like books, uniform, coaching, stationery is decided in advance. There is a lot of competition in the education market. Some expensive educational institutes even provide a package of ultramodern services and facilities like a five star hotel to the students. Now the most importance is given to showoff in the field of education.
There are two types of educational institutions in our country, government and private. The financial condition of teachers in government institutions is satisfactory because of better salary. In the country, the institutions of the central government like IIT, IIM, University, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navodaya Vidyalaya, Army Public School are known for their better quality education, but the education system is in a very bad condition in other institutions. Fraud is seen in many entrance examinations and teacher recruitment. Teachers with high salaries do not have knowledge of their subject. Government educational institutions of many states look like junk shops, especially in backward areas. Rackets are also active for fake degrees.
Many people know about the serious problems in the education department, but no one opposes it openly. Today, even teachers are seen indulging in adultery, corruption, discrimination and drug abuse. Famous private educational institutions which are financially strong try to maintain the quality of education and provide better facilities to the students, but in small private institutions, recruitment of qualified teachers is done only in name, because employing a teacher on a very low salary is cheating the teacher, hence in such institutions, new unqualified teachers come and go every year. During this period, students suffer a lot, teachers also provide makeshift education according to their low salary.
Such teachers and students both act as an obstacle for the developed society. Nowadays, such an education system is responsible for the falling level of education in the country. Many tainted incidents in education occur daily, on 15 August 2024, on the front page of Dainik Bhaskar Hindi newspaper of Nagpur (Maharashtra), a news was published about taking a bribe of Rs 30 crore for the recruitment of 92 professor posts in Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, that is, around Rs 5080 lakh for each post.
On 20 August 2024, Lokmat newspaper also published the news that a professor of a college in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (Maharashtra), whose salary is Rs. 2.75 lakhs per month, decided to take a bribe of Rs. 5 lakhs from one of his PhD students and the professor was caught by the Anti Corruption Bureau while taking the first installment of Rs. 50 thousand. Such news is often read and heard, the employees working in this field know this reality very well. But the victim of its horror is only the poor and qualified highly educated candidate because he cannot give bribe, so it is difficult to get a job.
Many times the Vice Chancellor, ruling leader, minister were made aware of this problem but no permanent solution was found. Will those who have obtained a sacred post like a teacher through wrong means really be able to become an ideal teacher by maintaining dignity, justice, integrity of their post? In our country, for more than 20 years, qualified candidates have passed qualifying exams like UGCNET, SET, SLATE for the post of Assistant Professor, obtained MPhil, PhD degrees, spent many years of their life, money, age in obtaining this higher education, but still they did not get a job according to their qualification, so their life has been ruined.
In the state of Maharashtra, the responsibility of professor posts or recruitment of servants in government aided (granted) colleges is given to the college, the salary is paid by the government but the recruitment is done by the college. In most educational institutions, teachers on contract get less salary than even daily wage labourers. It becomes very difficult to live in this inflation, so many times such teachers commit suicide out of frustration.
I once stayed for a day in a state government funded boys' residential ashram school in a rural area of Chandrapur (Maharashtra). It was the rainy season. The ashram building was in ruins. Doors were made by joining pieces of wood, the walls of the rooms were wet from inside. In such inadequate facilities, small students used to sleep on mats spread on the floor.
The bathrooms and toilets were very unclean, so the students there used to bathe in the open, in the ashram's well. Seeing the kitchen there, no one would dare to eat food. Drains were flowing along the walls, in which big mosquitoes did not let one sit quietly even for a moment, in such an environment there is always a fear of snakes and scorpions. When I remember that scene even today, my body shivers and I feel pity for the children there that the future of the country is spending its days in such a miserable condition. It is very difficult to be a true teacher in today's era.
– / Written By Top News Bulletin
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