Teacher & his tuition

Students of the Government Higher Secondary School, Belukurichy near Namakkal in TamilNadu resorted to a flash protest by boycotting classes on Monday, September 10, 2012 against a physics teacher who was not taking classes properly and was partial to those attending tuition with him.

Hey Ram! What sort of teachers are serving the student community these days. Hence a poem on such teachers written by the author of this blog which reads as follows:

Teacher

Sorry for expecting a teacher to be a guru

Standards are falling everywhere you see

Modern gurus are paid not less by the way

Modern & hard work can’t they teach, I say

Guru is supposed to be a good example but

Gurukul is seen nowhere now in our midst.

Education has truly become a paying business

Elite’s progeny expend a lot in such enterprise

Teachers are no doubt exploited in some places

Teachers at times teach less & practice politics

Students are now at their mercy for good marks

Students doubtless strain a lot for better results.

Impartial and motivated service is difficult to find

Inimical and irritating is the system for admission

Private coaching and tuition is a real phenomenon

Parental agony & ward’s anxiety end up in tyranny

How to set right and bring in discipline and decency

How to attract the best in the fraternity for teaching

Interchange of teachers & masters for certain tasks

Interaction of the current with the former almanac

Certainly would this improve their lot in the system

Cautiously could one effect the reform for the better

Teachers are in a different category & unlike others

Teachers are to mould the future generation as ever.

Let the State announce an education policy quickly

Let different sectors of education be defined clearly

Let the administrators learn a lesson from the past

Let the educationists be bold in their stand and test

Let the educational institutions be temples of learning

Let the businessmen make it not the means of earning.

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‘Guru’ refers to a principled and spiritual teacher whereas ‘gurukul’ refers to a residential school in a traditional set up in ancient India.