The Role of Teachers as Nation Builders
A teacher plays a significant role in building the nation. He influences a child and brings him up as a talented person. There is an important role of teacher for brightening up the future of the country through the process of education. It is the teacher who puts all the youth on to the path of progress. The talented youth are the future of the nation. The good schooling with worthy teachers phenomenalizes the career of the students, that helps in rising them rise and become the true citizens of the country.
The child starts developing mentally as well as physically only after going to school. He watches the activities of his teacher and follows them. The teacher organizes many activities in the school like prayer, physical training, music, dance, debate, lectures, arts and crafts, variety show, cultural programmes, writing and other competitions, sports and so on. These activities influence the child in the real sense which helps in building up his personality. It is the teacher who shows dreams to a child for his bright future.
Military activities are very important for a youth which a teacher executes through NCC. It keeps the students mentally alert and physically fit. There are so many adventurous activities which are facilitated to the students through NCC. Horse riding, para jumping, swimming, crossing of obstacles, wall climbing, rope crawling, warfare activities and firing with modernized weapons are a few examples which make a youth capable and bold for performing the work in an enterprising manner. All the activities during military training set example of discipline, punctuality, dress, comradeship, good behaviour and so on. These influence the students and give positive impact in their minds.
The teacher treats all the students like his own children. He rewards the students for good work and at the same time he punishes for faults with an intention of improving the students.
Those who invented new things for the mankind were the students of yesterday. We are enjoying life due to their inventions. There would surely have been the role and contribution of teacher in educating, guiding and making them comfortable in research work right from beginning which would have facilitated them in emerging as renowned inventors. Similarly, a teacher develops a child and makes him capable through his teaching ability to work in other fields. It is the teacher who makes a student capable up to that extent that he can do better for the nation and mankind.
A child may be in nursery classes or he may be doing higher studies, there is an important and constructive role of a teacher towards a child. A teacher takes interest in teaching the students from their basic to higher education with the dreams that his students would do the best in their life. There are many teachers who possess extraordinary talent. They are assets of the nation. People follow them and succeed in their lives. A professor of a technical institute and an instructor of research organisation have a big role in producing capable engineers, technicians and scientists who meet the requirement of modern time, not only of the country, but of the whole world. It is a virtual effect of our good education that 40% software professionals, 15% engineers, 5% doctors, 10% management qualified persons and many good scientists are working outside the country and brightening the name of the nation.
India was ruled by the foreigners for about 300 years. They kept our society backward and illiterate. Their system of education was merely theoretical which was useful only for office work. India progressed in the field of education, science and technology only after its independence. Our country has several reputed schools, colleges, institutes, research centres, vocational and technical colleges which are giving very useful academic and technical education not only to the students of India, but to a good number of students from foreign countries including Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). Foreign students are taking admission in these institutes for better studies. Our IITs and IIMs are worldwide famous. A number of students passing out from these institutes are securing good jobs within and outside the country. These institutes are having highly qualified and renowned teachers, who are fulfilling the requirement of the country and the world. It was a matter of pride to learn that almost forty per cent of the students of IIT and IIM are being picked up directly by the reputed foreign companies and these students are getting handsome salaries and good working facilities over there.
Tremendous changes have overtaken India in the course of last 58 years since its independence. India is a vast country and its major profession is agriculture. There had been a green revolution in this field. It is because of advance education towards agricultural system which took place in our country. The application of new technology, effective performance of our agricultural and research institutions in developing the quality of seeds, chemical fertilizers and insecticides have changed the total scenario of agricultural production. We are today self-sufficient in food grain. In fact, we are exporting a good quantity and earning handsome foreign currency out of it. India has also progressed in other fields by virtue of technological advancement and modernisation. There has been impressive industrial development in the country because of improvement in the technical education that produced an adequate numbers of trained manpower for taking care of the needs of modernized industries. The area of emerging technologies such as micro-electronics, education technology, informatics, telematics, robotics, water resource management, energy studies are receiving positive result, which all is the outcome of improved educational standard in the country.
India is emerging as an economic force in the world. It has a nuclear capability which the whole world recognizes today. It is moving very fast in the fields of science, technology including information technology, foreign trades, medical research, technical education and quality control which have made India capable for accelerating global competition. A tangible portion of credit goes to our teaching professionals for their contribution. By virtue of their talented and dedicated efforts, we could bring about revolution in the field of modern education, which made India emerge in the world order.
It will be necessary to make the teaching ,profession more attractive for ensuring more competency and professionalism. Potential teachers can give better shape through their worthiness. This community always contributed and served the nation well. Their importance has increased more in this age when competition is be-coming more tough day-by-day and the world is moving towards globalization for many important things.
