Teachers’ Day

Not long ago, teachers didn’t have any designated day as teachers’ day in Bhutan. Because teachers are revered high. To know the fact, it is also not reflected in the national calendar as teachers’ day. But the day is observed coinciding with the birth anniversary of the 3^rd Druk Gyalpo. I remember this day becoming important because of our former education minister T.S. Powdyel. He has emphasized more importance to teachers around the country than any other civil servants. He, with his lots of erudition, thought teachers like guru, one who enlightens. So, he used soft lips services to woo and uplift teachers without many personal supports like financial rise, and living standard of teachers. He, in the end, gave all his philosophies, policies, strategies, and plans that overloaded teachers and confused them even more. One such example was a green school, green Bhutan concept. It actually should be a clean school, clean Bhutan.   

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Now, the present minister is a dead log when it is already teachers’ day. And the trend of juvenile teachers’ day celebration is on the honk. A big honk is needed to remind once again that teachers are true builders of the nation’s future. Pities are the days of teachers with lots of works. Works? Teaching, monitoring, guiding, planning (no need to write of these)……and at the end, a dry, a meager salary is his fruit of hard labors.

I would like to plea, on behalf of all poor teachers on this day to give less for less, and more for more. No teacher in the country is Lakhpati, even thousandpati, not even hundredpati. In the end, it all boils down to higher incentives. No dignity of labor, no respect, not even kind of work, nothing, but money. And it is another way round only.

I wish and thank my teachers for making me what I am today and making difference in my life. And I also like to wish all teachers and say: Teach from the heart, not from the book.