Last week end, the renowned Malayalam poet Mr. Madhusoodanan Nair inaugurated the College Union and Arts Club. During his inaugural address, the poet dropped an ‘opinion bomb’! He stated that the most essential quality for a teacher, is ‘creativity’!
Well... some of us in the auditorium, felt that only a poet would make such a far fetched statement. But then, the fact remains that Mr. Madhusoodanan Nair was once a teacher of a local college and he made this statement based on his own experience of having been taught by the living legend of Malayalam poetry,
Mr. O.N.V. Kurup.
While the audience was pondering over the statement, Mr. Madhusoodanan Nair made one simple request to the trainees before concluding his speech : Never pay donation for securing a teaching job. Doing so, is both self-defeating and degrading.
Back home, I recalled a question I had posed to some of my BEd classmates in the same auditorium in 1993. Most of my class mates had distinctions for their BA / MA and a couple of them were University rank holders! I had asked them what they planned to do after the BEd course. Without any second thoughts they blurted out that they would pay donation and get a teaching job in a college! And that was exactly what the rank holders too did, the year after taking the BEd examination!
Why does the present generation fail to live up to the high ideals of the older generation? Is it a failure of our educational system ?
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