Dimapur, Sep. 5 (EMN): A combined Teacher’s Day was celebrated in Dimapur on Wednesday at the Christian Higher Secondary School’s Convent Hall. The additional deputy commissioner of Dimapur, Albert Ezung, was the special guest of the event.
Addressing the teachers, Ezung said that “most youths today opt for lucrative jobs concerning with power and authority as profession, but very few are attracted to teaching as profession.” He paid tributes to the young teachers and encouraging them to consider teaching a work that is more than a profession. He pointed out that renowned institutions in the country like the Indian Institute of Management and the Indian Institute of Technology are raising concerns at the country not producing enough teachers, as students would opt for corporate jobs.
“The quality of a student depends on the quality of faculty,” he said, adding that teachers should be in a position to inspire their students to become teachers in the future.
The commissioner also made a comparison between the kind of teaching in the past and the present generation. He said teaching has undergone a change in a few years’ time. Unlike teaching in the old days when it was a one-way communication, “It has become complex and demanding now,” he said. “With the revolution in technology, students are loaded with information,” the officer reminded. It is the duty of a teacher to organise those knowledge and make them relevant for students, he said, urging the teachers to recognise talent in a student and to bring out the best in them.
“Children look up to us as their role models and it is our duty to guide them in the right perspective,” he asserted. He has asked teachers to update their knowledge especially in soft skills to relate more with students.
The commissioner also lamented over the present day situation where people are becoming less humane, competitive, and self-centric. He said: “values of respecting, honesty, hardworking, sense of togetherness, are fading.” Therefore, he encouraged teachers to educate students to become a good human being so they can become responsible in the society.
Further, Ezung said that life in the remote areas is “very difficult” and one should be privileged to have been working and serving at Dimapur. He encouraged; “let us try to give more than 100% and do justice.”
The commissioner closed his speech by quoting an American writer, William Arthur Ward’s, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
The sub-divisional education officer of Dimapur district, T Kiyelu Yeptho, in his welcome address said; “we are not only a teacher but we are the managers of the world’s greatest resources that is our children.”
Also, the principal of government higher secondary school, Singrijan, P Aienla Longkumer, spoke about the significance of teachers’ day. She urged the teachers to ponder upon where they stand today. ‘We (teachers) considered ourselves better than others, but, let us all be hard on ourself and examine ourselves,’ she said.
As teachers, one can do so much good and our students are the reflection, she said. She encouraged teachers to take their profession seriously and be committed to what they do.
Altogether 22 teachers from both the private and government have been awarded with the district award 2018, with 13 teachers from government schools and nine teachers from the private schools.
