Thursday, May 6, 2010

Unethical Teachers - Corrupt Education

In spiritual, in Hinduism teachers are called Guru, in Islam mullah and Rabbi in Jewish and In Tibet teachers are call Lama. Now being a teacher is a professional occupation usually employed in formal schools and institutions. Most colleges and universities require teachers who have professional qualification. A teacher is a person who is guiding, instructing and training a person or group of students in a particular academic knowledge or skill.


It is a gift of being a teacher because teaching is a difficult job. It requires utter dedication and selflessness to be able to impart your learning to the students. It not only deals with academic knowledge alone. Being very knowledgeable will not immediately qualify as a good teacher. What is more important is the attitude and the skill of being able to transfer the lessons effectively to the students.

Nobody, in India intentionally prefer the profession as teacher, but in lack of money leads him to teaching to get some money or fail to get higher percentage studies make one to no other choice than being a teacher. All over the the world, the word "Master" is used for a person who has expert of his field. But this word " master " in India is used to tease somebody like he is typical school teacher. The unethical teachers had made the word so cheap that even teachers prefer to call them Sir, Madam or teacher instead of Master. Teaching value and morals have gone down in public school as well as in private school

These are the dialogues of one of the school of India.


  • School teacher : ' Your son is very weak in studies you need to take care of him'
  • Parent : ' My son is regular and comes to school everyday'
  • Teacher : ' That's not everything you have to teach him at home too'
  • Parent : ' Why home, what he is doing here ? , almost six hours everyday and you have neither playground nor sport equipments to play here.'
  • Teacher : 'We teach all the students in class but very few left with poor performance and one of that is your son, he do not concentrate '
  • Parent : ' So what should I do ?'
  • Teacher : ' Teach him at home and help him doing home work, he gets it from school.
  • Parent : ' But we hardly get time to teach him at home"
  • That what teacher wanted parents to ask him
  • Teacher : Take the private tuition from somebody you know'

Naturally, right now parents only know the teacher standing front of him and parents wants their children to stay ahead of other students. So the parents will ask the school teacher to favour and take the tuition for the so called weak student. Teachers know what questions going to ask in examination by understanding little syllabus and last years examination paper. Tutor will teach him that questions only that going to ask in examination. After this talk if the parents are not capable for paying for tuition, a weak student may get hard time in school.



While the student has lack of concentration how he gone a taken care by private tuition and not in school. By chanting some of questions and answers ? Lack of interest in teaching by teachers, as they have to raise some extra income from tuition, leaving their morals and ethics aside. Now, the private tuition classes sign boards are visible everywhere.



Every year, the government sets aside billions of rupees for schools. This money is spend by government granted schools and Municipality schools in India. Corrupt school management don't let pass money to teachers and students, they pay lower salaries to teachers than standards. Recent Bollywood's Hindi Movie '3 Idiots' disclose the wrong teaching attitude of teachers. They have to create the well educated student instead of well trained students. (like circus lion)



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