Teaching, a nobel profession or just another money making business?

teaching in its very core is the noblest profession but you got to understand that not all schools are run by teachers, those administrations are often businessman that puts the teaching/education process to the ranks of money making industry. you also got to understand that money is basic need, you are chosen to get a career at certain endeavor because you want to built a future which is financially successful. you got to understand that to achieve things here on earth you need to have money.

You say - 'We read in the newspapers...' and there you have it. You read of one event out of millions in the paper and suddenly the whole subject is dammed. I hardly think private school governers are greedy - I mean you rarely see them flashing their money on big yachts and the like. You need to choose banking as a profession to be in that league! I taught briefly in a girls high school once to help out when they were desperate for a maths teacher. And believe me, they must have been desperate to take me on! haha As an engineer I knew maths all right but this was New Maths - all sets and phrases and pies. I learnt more than the girls did! haha But I did learn a lot more. I learned of the great responsibility a teacher has. The temptation to infiltrate those young minds with any fanatical leanings you may have. I learned how poorly paid teachers are compared with industry. I learned of the deep satisfaction you get when your girls do well at the end of the year. Oh yes. Teaching is a vocation, and although governments love to tinker with the education system year on year, it doesn't really change that much.

Hi there, My father, Aunt and grandmother were all teachers back in the 60's, early 70's. I don't know what it is like in India but here in the States, I think a big problem was allowing the government to get overly involved in the schools. Both my father and my Aunt were wonderful and innovative teachers. The students loved and respected them and more importantly, they learned and were inspired to learn more. Both of them gave up teaching, not because they didn't love it but because more and more they were unable to just be themselves and teach. My father was disciplined for not attending enough board meetings. He would miss meetings because he would stay after school to help students.

You know, this is a tough one to answer. I will say this. I have had my fair share of teachers who just seem to be going through the motions. They are just out for the paycheck that they get. They have little to no interest in enriching the lives of students. Much like every other job, there are people out there for a paycheck that really cannot handle the pressures of dealing with children. Thus it trickles down into the problems that you mentioned. I do think there are a few teachers who are in it for the children and teaching them to enrich their lives. However, it is a sad truth that they are few and far between any more. Schools will take whatever they can get as opposed to a really good teacher. All in the name of saving money. Thus those few teachers are being beaten down and made as part of the system I think it has always been like this to an extent. However, it is just about getting the money for textbooks and getting the students through there. This is most certainly in Grade School and most certainly into High School. It changes when College as most of those people are absolutely competent. However, this is just proof while a lot of children who do not like school. It has become a business and its all about the bottom line, in making or saving money and they are unwilling to bend to get the tools to do it the right way.

based on the teachers in our country, i can say that teaching is a noble profession. my mother is a teacher. when i was young, i really didn't like teaching because my mother doesn't have much time for us. she brings a lot of school works at home. her salary is low. we couldn't go out much and i couldn't buy all the things that i wanted. then i realized that she does those things because she needs to. it's her job and responsibility even though all her overtime works are unpaid. now i am already a teacher too.

Teaching should be a business esp. in law school so my lawyer teachers will realize how customers (i.e., the students) deserved to be treated. Students have needs. They want to learn. And they want to live their lives. Any "teacher" who has other concerns aside from meeting the needs of their students does not really know their reason for being in school. It is also important to point out that it is learning that is the end product in the university, not teaching. So, the focus must be on the students learning and not the teacher teaching.

I'm a teacher and teaching is still a noble profession...as far as money making in schools go, it is the person who runs the school that is making money...the teachers aren't paid highly....and this is one of the main reasons that there are not many dedicated teachers anymore. In the school I taught at ...most teachers were mothers of students at the school and the only reason why they would enter teaching was to get the benefits that their children would enjoy (fee concessions, food/transport free, etc). Though it would bother me that people like this were entering the field of teaching...but considering the pay we were getting, I can't really blame them. The system has changed and not for the better. And education has become a business at the city I am at....so, we are now homeschooling my older son and I have quit my job.

Its both.For some people its a business and for some people its a noble profession. There are some people in India who are spending their live in tribal zones and are educating these people and there are lots of private classes in every big city where they charge loads of fee to all students..For them its a business.So its like that. Both type of people are out there.

All in all,teaching is just a kind of business in many people's opinions.It is really a disappointing thing to know.

I agree that teaching is a noble profession, but violence involving teachers hurting students increases. i don't know what is happening in the world right now, teachers shouldn't hut the students because we all know that teachers teaches good values but they cant even applied it to there selves. Here in my country, they banned teacher who hurts the students because they are threatened that the violence will increase.

In good conscience, teaching must still be seen as a nobel profession. Education is too important to be taken for granted. We should encourage teachers everywhere. Without them where would our children be? They deserve the highest acclaim!

hell0 there! it is really strange and also sad in some way how many people think that being a teacher means some kind of a normal job and that people/teachers do it only for some money and that they are actually not called upon that. well, let me tell you something- my cousin is a teacher and now I live by him, so every day he come back from work he always tell me a new story about something that has happened on his work place. students, are actually children, some are younger some are not, but they all think and act like children and working with children is realy hard and children are actually the hardest groups of all. that's why I can definitely tell you, that being a teacher is not for every one, being a teacher means that you must have strong nerves, because kids/students know and can really get on your nerves, but you must know how to react in cases like that. so that's why I think that being a teacher is a vocation and not just a job/profession and not everyone can become teacher. So I really disagree with people who tell that being a teacher is only a business, and I will offer them to switch their place with some teacher just for a day, so that they can see how "easy" it is to be a teacher and what professional you must be, to know how to handle with children in all the possible situations taht could happen every single day!

I feel very sorry for the education system now a days as teaching now a days is considered as only passion to earn money.Now a days many teachers just teach in school just to earn money,after the school they take tuition classes to increase their income ...also Student are now a days carrying more load on their back ...as average school bags weigh 5 to 8 kg.I remember when I was in 7th class i weighed my bag ,the weight was about 6 to 8kg....I really feel sorry for student who are carrying so much load.....!