Happy World Teachers' Day 2023: Why & How to Celebrate

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00:00 So, just like teachers play a major role in our lives,

00:03 after our parents,

00:04 the people who teach us the secrets of life are our teachers.

00:09 In fact, one of our teachers has always been our favorite,

00:12 whether it's at school level, college or university.

00:15 Children must be celebrating this day.

00:17 Small children make a lot of such things and take them to their teachers,

00:21 take cards and express their love.

00:24 So, that is a very beautiful gesture.

00:27 So, we have with us to talk about this situation,

00:31 the former Principal of Qadian Azam Medical College, Dr. Javed Iqbal.

00:36 Dr. Javed Iqbal, thank you so much for joining me.

00:39 Especially, today, we are talking about this topic.

00:42 So, tell us,

00:43 a teacher plays a very important role in the education and training of any child.

00:47 After home, the most important school is the school.

00:51 Do you understand how important it is for teachers to play their role?

00:56 Is it still as important as it was in your time and our time?

01:02 Yes, thank you very much, Aazia.

01:05 Absolutely right.

01:06 First, we talk about our formal teachers,

01:09 that is, the ones who teach us in school or college.

01:13 Apart from this,

01:14 children and humans,

01:17 in general,

01:18 apart from their parents,

01:20 there are thousands of people in the world who teach them.

01:24 It is not necessary that their teacher is a formal teacher,

01:27 like the one who was their teacher in school.

01:29 Someone like this can be their friend,

01:31 someone like that can be their elder brother,

01:34 and their parents can also be there,

01:36 who can be in the teacher's role.

01:39 There is a South African verb,

01:41 or its proverb is,

01:43 that for the care of a child,

01:46 the whole village is needed.

01:48 That is, it means that the personality of a person,

01:52 thousands of people participate in it.

01:54 And obviously,

01:55 when a child studies in our school or college,

01:58 he has a relationship with his teachers,

02:01 and those teachers who become his role models,

02:03 who like him from the bottom of their hearts,

02:05 they play a very prominent role in his life.

02:11 So, the teacher's importance is very much for the mental development of a person.

02:15 Today is the era of technology,

02:17 and you said that we learn from a lot of people.

02:20 It's not just specific to school teachers,

02:23 or university teachers.

02:25 Mentors also play an important role in our lives.

02:27 But do you think that we are more in touch with people,

02:32 or that there is a big distance due to technology?

02:35 So, we have more reliance on technology,

02:39 and we are trying to learn more from there.

02:41 Yes, Sardar, it is unfortunate that the new generation,

02:46 the children who are born 10-15 years ago,

02:50 have been treated very unfairly,

02:53 because they think that links are relations.

02:56 A relation is something in which you have invested a lot,

03:00 in which you have invested time,

03:02 energy, and sacrifices.

03:05 So, these are relations.

03:06 But unfortunately, in this era of technology,

03:09 if you want to make a link with someone,

03:11 you just send a call,

03:13 send a request, and he clicks on it, and it comes to your link.

03:16 So, it is very unfortunate that we think of links as relations,

03:20 and it is very important to explain this to the new generation,

03:23 that the artificial relationships that are developed through cyber words,

03:28 are not equivalent to those relations that are with your physical interaction.

03:33 So, this is really a big shortcoming,

03:36 and we don't know about it right now.

03:38 Social scientists are doing research on this,

03:40 and some of their results have come out,

03:42 which have shown that in the coming years,

03:45 it will be very difficult for our younger generation to maintain relations.

03:50 For example, I can quote with you that

03:53 on the 2nd of this month,

03:55 in the UK, mobile phones were completely banned in schools.

04:00 And it was banned because they did a long study and found that

04:04 the one-to-one relationship with the teacher,

04:07 is as important to develop personality,

04:10 and to acquire knowledge,

04:12 and to develop character,

04:14 mobile phones are not its alternate.

04:16 And this is very important,

04:18 that in a country like Britain,

04:20 where there is a school reform committee,

04:22 they have decided that mobile phones will be banned.

04:25 So, the answer to your question is,

04:27 that we have the right, especially for children under the age of 7,

04:31 natural activities,

04:34 like going to the park,

04:36 like catching butterflies,

04:38 like going to see the bird house,

04:40 cleaning the house,

04:42 eating with the mother,

04:44 helping her in the kitchen,

04:46 and going to the hospital to visit the patient,

04:48 going shopping together,

04:50 children should be involved in such activities.

04:53 This is the best alternative,

04:55 which we can get from the internet,

04:57 without filtering the data.

04:59 It is not necessary to tell the values,

05:01 it is very important to show the values practically,

05:04 and the children imitate you.

05:06 One more question,

05:08 we are celebrating the teachers,

05:10 but the situation in our country,

05:12 the situation with our teachers,

05:14 have we been able to give them the real status?

05:17 Look, I know this with complete certainty,

05:21 that in Britain and in America,

05:24 I am taking the names of both these countries,

05:26 because we copy a lot of things from there.

05:29 There, the teacher has a very high status.

05:32 In our country, after a year or two,

05:35 children say that they want to be a doctor,

05:37 or an engineer,

05:39 but many children say that they want to be a teacher,

05:41 because they feel that the status of a teacher is very high.

05:45 So, in our country,

05:47 if you look at a primary school teacher,

05:49 he must be going through a very difficult time,

05:51 considering all the privileges he has.

05:54 In government schools,

05:56 you get free tickets,

05:58 but in our country,

06:00 there are a lot of private schools.

06:02 In private schools,

06:04 the teacher's fees are so shameful,

06:06 that in Pakistan,

06:08 there is an unfilled work.

06:10 So, we have to make proper arrangements for the teachers' employment,

06:13 so that they can get the status.

06:15 Thank you so much, Dr. Javed Iqbal.

06:17 There is a lot of work that needs to be done in the educational sector,

06:20 and we have a lot of children in the crores who do not even go to school.

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