Showing posts with label Teachers World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teachers World. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Tale of teacher absenteeism lies in Teachers Union

It is absurd to argue that the “evaluation of teachers can wait”. Of course “there’s a lot that is wrong in the education sector in India, be it at the primary or higher education level”. In General the Indian education system has been sucked out of good quality education. The unionized teacher group is major part of the damages.

In fact it is not true that “there is every chance that they could be victimised” supposes if that is the case is not that the children are now victimized in schools, colleges and the universities? They are.

What importantly Adam Smith said was that “the teachers had no jurisdiction over their pupils, nor any other authority besides that natural authority, which superior virtue and abilities never fail to procure from young people towards those who are entrusted with any part of their education.”

Teacher deserve peanuts!

I was taught some of top economic professors in Tamil Nadu in Madras University but not even one qualifies to call a true teacher unfortunately had one in my schooling.

Take for example a professor taught about Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal’s “Asian Drama” and other ideas but utterly did not mentioned not eve once about F A Hayek.

What is special about these two economists is that both were awarded Nobel Price in Economics in 1974!

Secondly, another professor taught economic development and planning but never hinted about B R Shenoy’s Dissent Note to the Second Five Year Plan of India.

Third a professor asked student to tell something about Karl Marx theories. “Marx said only how to capture a country but did not say anything about how to govern” I said the Marxist professor said “you don’t know anything sit down!”

What Sauvik Chakraverti wrote was “Teacher! Don't teach nonsense”

Now “what do you think your teachers deserve? A real debate at least?”

Sure peanuts for my teachers I don’t know about your teachers!