Address by Dr. Subhash C. Arya on the occasion of Teacher's day on 5th September 2018 in the department of ECE.
Respected Head of the Department Dr. Rupaban Subadar, our esteemed colleagues Prof. L. J. Singh, friends, office staff, and dear students and learners.
I feel immense pleasure to present among you all on the occasion of celebrating and recognizing teacher's day, i.e., 5th September 2018.
Well, thanks for giving me an opportunity to speak my mind. Please say teachers are national builders. I say teachers are supposed to be a nation builder. There is a difference bin assuming that teachers are inbuilt nation builders and are supposed to be national builders. What is that difference? Suppose you assume that teachers are nation builders or inbuilt nation builders, then whatever a teacher does, it comes under nation building process. But is it the case, I say a big NO. In this regard, I quote our former prime minister Dr. ManMohan Singh, who said, " Our University system is in many parts in a state of disrepair. In almost half the districts in the country, higher educational enrolment is abysmally low; almost two third of our universities and 90% of our colleagues are rated as below average on quality parameters. I am concerned that in many states university, appointments, including that of vice-chancellors, have been politicized and have become subject to caste and communal consideration, there are complaints of favoritism and corruption..." Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2007.
In this light, I say teachers suppose to be nation builders. Since teachers are a fundament building block of the education system, including learners, infrastructure, and supporting technical and administrative staff, they have a far more significant role to play as a nation builder. I call upon all my fellow teachers to introspect, analyze the current state of educational affairs and contribute in such a way that nation should feel proud of its teachers and its community.
I have apprehension that there is a big gap between the structure of our education system and the structure of our Indian society. Our school, colleagues, universities, IITs, NITs and IISERS, IIMs, etc must represent the correct picture of Indian society. Mainly the teachers belong to one class o society, and students belong to another class of Indian society therefore, it creates lots of affective domain imbalances in the teaching-learning process. Why had we not accepted Britishers in Inda because they were or are more meritorious than us, but because they do not represent Indian Society?..... (incomplete text....)
Dr. Subhash C. Arya
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