Mastering the Teachers

I really have been watching that the teachers in West Bengal have long stemmed their expectation of living up to their dignity. Call them with whatever name you want to, and they have the sacred forgiveness earned through their education in the literal sense. The question comes almost everyday that within so few hours they have less work and are overpaid. However the teachers have never stopped anyone entering into the same profession. Sitting in a cubicle, with air-conditioning machines turned on, enslaved by the bosses, there are so called learned intellectuals, who have perhaps, never ever in their lives have made a single illiterate child learn his first alphabet and preferred to idle away their leisure hours in beer pub, suddenly become socially conscious when they come across the pay-packets and the holidays that the teachers in schools enjoy.

Those who do not know, I would like to mention that that the teachers have got the Saturdays working while in the private sector almost all the parallel designators enjoy leaves on Saturdays. In a whole year, the teachers in West Bengal have 65 days of leave (including the vacations and all the public holidays) while those working with the private sector, especially in the Information Technology industry, enjoy 52 days of holidays that the Saturdays in a year conjure up. Added are almost 25 days of public holidays. The same applies on the State and the Central Government employees.

Now let us come to the question of being overpaid. In United Kingdom (for those who salivate at the Civilization in the West) teaching and nursing (not medical practitioners as doctors) are graded the most dignified profession, as these directly relate to the service of mankind and thus the professionals are paid that the dignity in the job deserves. Undoubtedly, less the dignity, the government has made arrangements, all over India, so that the teachers are not deprived of their deserving honourarium. 

Strangely enough,, In West Bengal, the well placed educated people, cannot stand the changed deserving status of the teachers, here. The teachers are to be called MASTERMOSHAI forevermore; they should be ever clad in ragged clothes and put on torn chappals, but know and teach ever better than the God himself.

If they manage to live better, try every means to pull them down to the real status of living hand-to-mouth. My dear friends and those who cherish a perpetual grudge against the teachers, I cannot change your learned outlook to the teachers, because as your purses are thicker than them and so with the virtue of your daily enslaving mark of glitz of corporatization you earn the fundamental right of becoming jealous of the teachers. But think hard, if you had the knowledge and ability to TEACH one single child on earth would you have chosen to be enslaved thus?

Do remember, the things you have learnt in your life are only through the teachers at your first school. So, please do not sulk, they deserve it.