Teaching profession used to be the well respected one during my childhood times. I think many of those growing up in the seventies will share my feeling, teachers were so influential that we often afraid of them than our own parents. There are bad students and also some not so good teachers regardless of the past or present, but generally speaking teachers were more respected then than now.
My wife is a lecturer in a private tertiary institution. She always complained that the students are so rude nowadays that they can even eat their lunch box in the class and talking loudly to each others. One of her student showed his fist to my wife as she refused to allow the student to sign the attendance for his friends. The youngsters are spoilt bunch of gung-ho people. They thought that they are smarter than their teacher. Some of them drive BMW or Mercedes to campus and you expect this bunch of spoilt youngsters respect their teachers driving cheap cars?
I was shock to read about a teacher in Kulim suffered head injury as a plastic table was thrown at him by his students. If the students are so violence, what are they going to be when they grown up? Gangsters, bank robbers, drug addicts, mat rempits? No wonder our crime rates can never come down even though the IGP and Home Minister always very pleased with their own KPIs.
The discipline issue of the student warrants attention from our parties. If the schools fail to guide the kids on the right path, and the parents are too busy to make end meets, our future generation is at risk.
No comments:
Post a Comment