Who is the winner when it comes to driving teachers off the pedestal?

Since ancient times, at least in China, teachers have always been respected by society, whether they are the poorly paid private school teachers in the countryside or the well-paid bachelor professors in the university halls, but only because they are respected by a different level of people. The private school teacher in the countryside (also can be extended from the village teacher afterward) is respected by the people in the countryside, while the bachelor professor has a higher level of the target audience.

As the old saying goes, "If you are a teacher for a day, you will be a father for a lifetime. Therefore, since ancient times in China, the goods listed on the altar tablets are Heaven and earth, the king and his relatives, and the teacher. The teacher is second only to the parents.

Gradually, however, the claim that teaching is the most honorable profession under the sun has disappeared. In its place, teaching is an ordinary profession like other professions, with no distinction between high and low. People who became teachers were just trying to earn a salary to support their families. The former argument is largely resisted by many teachers because they do not want to be paid a shameful salary with a glamorous halo (although this is gradually improving). The latter is a common statement nowadays, but it is certainly true and correct. For there are few teachers in the past or the present who work without being paid at all, and some are, by and large, special free education for the very few poor students. However, this in no way affects the word "teacher" in the altar of God to occupy a seat.

Why? I think, by and large, the ancient people believe that parents are born to raise their bodies, while teachers are the key to teaching their knowledge to make them become adults. They considered both equally important, and some even felt that the latter was more important. I have often heard parents whose children have been imprisoned for crimes they did not commit as adults say that they should have known better than to give birth to them and that they regard adulthood as important. Since ancient times, if you want your children to become adults and know how to read and write, you can only look to your teachers. That's why the "teacher" is placed on the altar of God.

The second reason is probably to see the teacher as another parent of the child. That is, teachers are required to discipline their children like parents. This is not the author's nonsense, the author in the village elementary school, often heard the parents the first time sent their children to school, saying, I send this child to you as a son of the teacher. Many teachers hear such words, you take him as your son's control, the beating on the beating. Of course, there is no encouragement to beat students, but to illustrate that since ancient times parents ask their children to father to serve the teacher, hoping that the teacher as the father controls the son, so that the "teacher" for the altar of God is above.

After all, of course, the intention is not to "restore" these ancient examples, so that children must burn incense when entering the school to perform the ritual of worship. It's just that people keep emphasizing that the profession of teaching, like all other professions, is just to make a living.

Is teaching the same as all other professions?

The author's teacher education when he entered teacher training always emphasized that the teaching profession is an honorable profession, an engineer of the human soul, and a profession of great responsibility. Although every legitimate profession is needed by society and can be said to be important. However, as a profession directly related to the casting of the human soul, it seems not too much to say that it is more important than most general professions. The future of a strong nation is determined by education, and education depends on the vast number of teachers. I believe everyone understands this principle.

The difference between this profession and other professions can be seen in the details of the ordinary work of teachers.

Let me take an example from my own experience. In the past, students had to pay tuition fees to school, the biggest headache in rural schools on the opening days of the school year, each class has several requests to defer payment (at that time, there are still many students, a family of two or three to read small secondary schools have). I have no choice, my school regulations by the classroom teacher are responsible for the end of the period still pay is unclear, deduct the teacher's responsible for teaching awards or something. Later, "nine righteousness", some parents even old accounts also rely on or forget about. I do not remember how much, only remember that the income of the most meager substitute teachers tens of nearly a hundred can not be recovered (at the time, but it is worth the money). Why? Because the profession of teachers can not be because of money to turn away students. Several hotels and restaurants do not tolerate hungry people hungry and let them into the store to eat a meal. In order not to affect the business wanting to drink the remnants of the soup to drive away is seen.

Some people may say that the owner of the store also often lets people credit. But you know, that is to sell the goods, and sooner or later the money will be recovered.

The most common one is that students develop the habit of completing their homework without procrastination. Our teachers are often hungry and stay with them to do their homework before they go back. There is a need to re-explain the extra class is also voluntary overtime (the school did not require, no half a penny subsidy, and make-up or not to make up for the teacher's income is not the slightest connection). This is what I used to see in my school, even for substitute teachers who earn very little. Because teachers know that some important knowledge for some students who do not understand not to make up a little, too much impact on later learning. The sense of professional responsibility makes teachers do it naturally.

Also, teaching and educating people cannot be separated. In addition to the moral lessons, teachers' education is also reflected in their physical actions, to set an example. What students are required to do, the teacher has to do first. Occasionally, if you can't resist getting angry or overreacting, you have to apologize sincerely to a group of children afterward: the teacher should not get angry, the teacher is wrong to get angry, and apologize to everyone. No one asks, why? For education! Teachers are brave enough to admit their mistakes and apologize, students will not admit their mistakes when they do something wrong. This is the effect you want.

Dress appropriately and speak civilly. Not only in the school but also outside the school, in case of disputes have to be reasonable, and not at will to spill cursing rage foul language, etc., otherwise, it will be detrimental to the image of the teacher, after the inability to educate students.

This is a brief description of what makes the teaching profession different.

However, you may say, with these differences, it is necessary to put the profession of teaching above other professions, it is necessary to put teachers on the altar of God. The answer is yes, but not really.

Some people even think that the author is a teacher and wants to make this article to raise the status of teachers. This is a big mistake, and the IQ of those who think so can be said to be lower than the ancients.

To put it bluntly, putting teachers on the altar of God has been the need of parents since ancient times, not the need of teachers themselves. Whatever the time, for teachers, the cash in hand is the most affordable, to that false name what? And parents are different, to make children listen to the teacher's teachings, the best way is to raise the status of the teacher with their own or even higher than their own, the child can obediently follow to learn to read and write, listen to the teacher taught the truth about how to behave, to become an adult. From a snobbish point of view, it is the parents who hold the teachers up for the benefit of their children. But, for thousands of years, the vast majority of parents have sincerely respected their teachers, forming a fine tradition of respect for teachers and education.

It is just ridiculous that many people who do not know what they are talking about follow the blind. They say that the teaching profession is the same as other types of work. But do not know that, although it is the same, but must say that the reason is not the same.

So the teaching profession is compared to this and that. So teachers are pushed off the pedestal and turned into attendants for students. Students have become God, this can not be said, that can not do. If something goes wrong, only the "attendants" are to blame. What is the result? I don't need to tell you all now.

So now we realize that we have to return the disciplinary power to the teachers. But teachers are afraid to ask for it. Why? Take a perhaps slightly more extreme example.

A rabbit is given a whip to manage a pride of lions and says that anyone who disobeys can be whipped with it. Would the rabbit dare? That's the king of all animals!

If you don't have the right name, you don't have the right words!

So it seems fair to say that what we do now seems to be worse than the wisdom of ancient times. Why can't the teacher be regarded on the same level as the student's parents? Of course, in love, it is required to love students like sons, but be in control, and not dare to do a strict father.

Therefore, before giving disciplinary power to the teacher, it seems that the name should be corrected first. The profession of a teacher is born to discipline students, the normal management of the teacher is not responsible for anything that happens.

It is only necessary to correct the name of the teacher, not to mention anything in particular to give the right to discipline. Because "discipline" naturally contains discipline. Because how many parents discipline their children is only "coaxing" and praise? Therefore, for the sake of education, teachers should not be driven off the altar.