Vishü Rita Krocha
Teaching is rightly considered a noble profession. Teachers eventually become the ultimate role models for students. That children look up to them with deep respect and even aspire to become exactly like them when they grow up testifies to this fact.
The ambitions of students may not all be directed to becoming a teacher someday, but they are directly instrumental in shaping the dreams of these children. Teachers continue to play crucial roles in molding the future of our children. They are the agents of change that takes shape in the minds of the students.
That they work tirelessly for long hours, standing and equipping students with knowledge really needs to be appreciated because it takes a lot of patience, commitment and missionary zeal to discipline a classroom of students from varied family backgrounds.
If not for our teachers, we would not be where we are today. Maybe you have become an officer now, or a politician, a bureaucrat, an engineer, a doctor, an educationist, a lawyer, a social worker, a professional, or a happily retired individual. It is because of teachers in various stages of one’s quest for education that each one has gotten somewhere.
Somehow their patience, love and affection, their devotion and faith in their students’ abilities reflect in the lives that are thriving today. It is mostly because of their undivided attention for children while they were students that they get by in life. Teachers are the guiding lights of thousands of people trying to find some direction in life. They instill in children, values that need to be carried along the way.
Every single individual who went to school once, regardless of where they are or what they do now, have fond memories of being a student. Recollection of school always includes teachers. They get into the picture like it is part of the plan; and aptly so, because school or any learning institution is never complete without them.
The collage of this memory may include the strict teacher, the stern looking teacher who punishes students for failing to do one’s home work, for misbehavior and the like, and those who were students once, still don’t hate them because in their hearts of hearts, they also know that they work for the student’s own good.
Many a times teachers do not receive the due credit and respect that rightly belongs to them. It is also true that their profession is not among the highest paid jobs. But one must never forget how teachers silently transform the face of the society. Their efforts and sacrifices definitely pay off because if one’s living conditions are, by any means better today, then it also signifies that the education teachers have imparted on the thousands of students have reaped results.
Next to parents, teachers also have the tremendous responsibility of grooming a child in every sense, and not merely giving them education strictly in the academic sense, because they also hold with them, the future of hundreds of citizens of tomorrow.
The nobility of their profession is indisputable, and the way with which, they consistently change the world by equipping students with knowledge to face their tomorrow truly deserves our outmost admiration.
This is a guest editorial by Vishü Rita Krocha. She is the Publisher of PenThrill Publication and a senior journalist based in Kohima.
