Building the nation with teachers

Q. What are the factors that draw one towards teaching?

A. The factors keep changing at different levels of education. Unfortunately, school-level teaching is stereotyped as a woman’s job because handling young children is not considered to be a part of the male’s domain. Therefore, it is comparitively easier for women to get into the education sector.

The Sixth Central Pay Commission has made much difference in the higher education sector. Today, at an entry level, an assistant professor usually gets a salary, which is much better than what was in old days, absence of which acted as a filter then. People who believed in materialism did not join this sector.

Q. What does this role entail?

A. For many, teaching is not a preferred profession. However, to be in this sector one has to possess a firm belief in academics. It is not just about being in the world of books, but it entails thinking, sharing, the desire to teach and valuing feedback from learners. Poeple interested in research work often join the industry. Along with patience that research requires, there should be inspiration and desire to work.

If one aspires to be a school teacher, one needs to empathise with children and should be willing to work with them. People who are not very comfortable with children would not want to enter the profession. Training teachers programme can teach the maxium but senstivity towards with students’ need has to come from within. Click here to read more...

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Bachi Singh Rawat, BJP MP, Uttarakhand

Both his pair of school clothes – and he got only two pairs every year – would invariably have betel leaf-shaped patches on them. Trudging up and down hill tracts would see them get torn many times and so his mother would stitch those patches. “Now I make sure that all my clothes last at least 10 years!” says Bachi Singh Rawat. He adds, “On passing school, my father gifted me his wrist watch, which till date is my best prize and I still have it.”

Despite having donned the garb of the minister of state for defence, he has not made an increment of even a square yard in his father’s sparse farmland. But he is always aware of what grows on his two pieces of land in Thapla and Ranikhet. For he is in the farm most often to meet people when he visits home. He can be seen working on the land and even asks some visitors to put in a hand. He can barely stay in Delhi for than a month at a stretch. Then, he runs off to his native village for a clean hill breeze. After graduation, he studied law, during which he came under the strong influence of Jan Sangh, and later, via Janata Party, he came into BJP and became an MP in 1996. “My friends made in all these years fund my poll campaigns, which is why my expenses are so low. I don’t contest elections, my party comrades do.”

His monthly savings are Rs 40,000, but let that not startle you. “Our needs for my three-member family is just about Rs 20,000 a month, so the rest of my MP’s salary is saved, and I spend it on serving tea and snacks and paying for the travel expenses of the poorer people visiting him from his constituency.” As for the ADF, most of that is spent in upgrading schools in his locality.

Once he had been offered a big position and a fat purse to induce him to join Congress. “I told the person that my principles do not find echo in Congress party!”....Continue