Teachers have abused their profession and have tainted the image of their highly responsible profession with their own hands. Parents do not send their wards to school to work but to learn. The reason they have to send their wards over to the teachers is that they want the teacher to teach them. They are saying, “teach him.”
Students could be very difficult especially as they grow up and discover their abilities. Because they are in an ever-changing world, their capacity develops and they tend to learn not just from the school environment but from outside school walls as well.
However knowledgeable a student may be, he has found himself under the hands of the teacher because the teacher knows more than he does. The teachers thus have to teach him. Even when parents know their wards are difficult, they still plead with teachers to do all they can to teach them.
A teacher has to know and must put himself abreast of knowledge always building, advancing in knowledge to stand ahead of the class. It would not be a good attribute for students to compare their capability with their teachers.
Parents know teachers have the gift they do not have. As much as they are parents of their wards, they know the role of a teacher varies from being parents. They are not assuming they can play the role of a teacher. Parents acknowledge their role is to support teachers to play their role as teachers and they are ready to support them.
Abraham Lincoln acknowledges he had to support his son’s teacher do his job of teaching. Every parent is doing their job of supporting when they pay their school fees. By paying their fees, they are acknowledging teachers teaching virtue and expect teachers to reciprocate. Teachers have to teach them.
Every child will have to learn, every teacher will have to teach, every parent will have to support. Everyone must do his part if the training system must advance for the good of the child and the society.