A different take at the state of teaching community in India

I just saw an interesting post on FB. This was regarding the state of teachers in India. While in some countries, in the courtroom only the teachers are allowed to sit, in some other only teachers and ministers are given the VVIP status and in some other they have access to special privileges that nobody else can avail. To the contrary in India, there is no special treatment given to teachers and even they are not given salaries in time. I do agree with all what is written there. But at the same time a parallel thinking erupted inside my mind that asked my inner self, " by teachers do we mean the teachers employed by the government?" If I look around I find hundreds and thousands of teachers in many cities who started teaching their students in various disciplines like Maths, Science, Management, Engineering, Medicine, Pharmacy, Library Science, Computers, Economics, Biology, Sociology, Political Science and what not.. and earning in lakhs of rupees in a month. This is why they deserve it and people recognised their work and talent that translated into results. They may or may not be working for a government institute but they are highly reputed in their profession. I further got confused when I see thousands of vacancies of teachers being filled in the name of filling the gap of student teacher ratio in schools and colleges. There is a selection process for this but the end result shows that teachers in school fail to give good education to the boys and girls in elementary and high school levels. It's a fact that we don't produce good teachers. Before we want our teachers in government schools and colleges to get the privileges of highest order, we need to create an environment where quality teachers and not just qualified teachers are produced to teach the students. My view is not to hurt the teaching community. I have given a generalized statement and many of my fellow friends might be agreeing to this fact. I also appreciate that all fingers are not equal so there are very good and extra-ordinary teachers too in our schools and colleges and they are not part of that mass I quoted here.

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