ARE THE TEACHERS RESPONSIBLE FOR STUDENTS FAILURE?

1. ARE THE TEACHERS RESPONSIBLE FOR
STUDENTS FAILURE?
Today the sincere Teachers are in deep sea with privatization of education merit is
rarely appreciated or encouraged, the education is meant to suit the rich and powerful, the
dedicated teachers and students have become a minority and still we have to thrive, as we
have to live with job to sustain our own responsibilities to life.. Today some of the deemed to
be Universities market the results and give and take degrees as it is called as package deal,
in this process the profession is loaded with less competent Doctors who just make it with
power of Money. As our education system has noticeably begun failing our students, many
people have put the blame squarely on teachers only on sincere Teachers? However with
rapid expansion anybody can be a Teacher, it is no longer an art it is a Trade, with rapid
expansion potential. On both state and national levels, the Government and private institutes
has begun blaming teachers by holding them accountable to unreasonable testing and grade
metrics despite the fact that there are numerous other problems that exist. The pressure of
maintaining these ridiculous standards have led many teachers across the country to
illegitimately pass students along from one grade to the next, Today our Practical system of
assessment of the Students even in Medical profession is a hoax, we many times make the
questions suitable to pass the examination. Many get degrees in Medicine and other
professions easily however will fail to make it when faced with the social and professional
challenges. Today many Dental and Nursing graduates are not willing to take up the
profession as they are unable to face the challenges and very badly trained, by the Teachers
who just come to colleges to make money and fit to the Medical council regulations and many
times skip the classes, teach old ideas to the new generation of Professionals.. Today many
college managements consider the Teachers as workers. The worker bees are merely doing
what they're told. In the education system, teachers are the worker bees, and it is just as
absurd to blame them for the failure of our education system, as it is to blame employees for
the failure of a business. The fault lies at the top where the decisions that truly make the
biggest impact are being made. This includes decisions that affect budgets, technological
investments; many Engineering graduates produced from substandard colleges have no
basic skills to be called as even technician etc. The major failure of Students lie with lacking
responsibility of parents it's the Parents as Parents are the first line of defense and offense.
They have a responsibility for building an environment where learning and education is not
just enforced but made enjoyable. It's not enough to simply send your children to college and
hope the teacher inspires them to care about their future. How a teacher can take care of 200
students when the parents cannot take of their one or two children I'm increasingly becoming
convinced that our society doesn't value education, intellect or higher thinking. The
educational system as a whole can be blamed for this as well. As a society we've decided
and accepted a school or college system that houses students in factory facilities 8 hours a
day where they're each stamped out like clones, one after another they are each thrown into
the world with the same attributes. Each new student no better or different than the next.
What our school or college system and our society need to push is individualism. We cannot
continue building clones anymore! The failure of our education system can't be blamed on
one group of individuals. The blame must be placed on all of us. Administrators and
Managements blame the Teachers, Teachers blame students and Students blame the
Teachers when they fail, if we students and Teachers play our roles well we can make
matters better, then and only then will our education system improve. We must stop blaming
teachers for our failing education system. They aren't the only ones to blame and they
shouldn't be the central focus of blame. Whenever some body fails I search my
consciousness how much I am responsible. My long experience enlightens me we can
improve many students but to change the attitude of Teachers and parents in practice is
difficult to make the matters better in Education?
Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology, Freelance writer