By | Ishfaq Pirzada
The words you speak become the house you live in.
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them ou.
There are a number of tiny black blots on the surfaces of our academic guardians.
I, as a teacher, as a nation builder & as a care taker, request every member of teacher fraternity to watch out for the words they speak, the sentences they write & the compliments they attribute.
It’s a trademark profession of which we are a part & everyone is watching our each word, each sentence, each compliment & each activity we indulge in.
Most Unfortunately & ironically, if we slip with our tongue, if we misread a sentence or if we write a sentence with a meager grammatical mistake, everyone spots that. Everyone publicizes that. Everyone plays a folly of that. Everyone makes a fun of that. Everyone vandalizes our image. Everyone abuses our existence. Can we afford that?
In some cases, we make mistakes deliberately & in other cases we err out of consciousness. In both cases, we become the victims of apathy & hate.
Some people keep on watching out for our faults. Because, for them, our mistakes are a pleasure. Our errors are their joy.
To err is human. To deliberately err is inhuman. In most of the cases, we are responsible for the whole mess around. We never accept our faults. We highlight the faults of others.
We are never ready to appreciate & highlight the contribution of others but we are always overwhelmed to hail & praise those with whom our personal intrests are vested in.
We never care about our personality development. We never think about reading books, writing something for the development of our language. Language is an integral part of our personality. But we are hell bent on what we stand for, be that good, bad, wise or unwise. At times, our applications are circulated & made viral because of grammatical mistakes. Why shouldn’t we write for ourselves an application. Is it neccessary to earn abuse & hate by just performing a formality on official or personal level not keeping in mind the repercussions of our faults? It’s unfortunate. We know everything. We are scholars & we hold good positions but we never take things seriously.
Social media like WhatsApp has put a question mark on our behavior & credibility. We use WhatsApp groups for all those things which are totally meaningless. We write with no heads or tails & no sequence. Our language looks absurd. Is that fair? Do we do justice with ourselves? If not, can we do justice with our offsprings? Is there a future? If we question ourselves, we get a big no.
I beg you. Leave all conspiracy theories. Keep politics aside. Avoid leg pulling. Appreciate the good. Condemn the bad. Avoid hamaam confrences & kalwatt meetings. Abhor & abominate the backdoor businesses. Prepare yourself for any challenges. Improve/modify your language. Respect the profession.
Time is not far away when education will be privatized. If done, we ought to be the subordinates of those who know only business. Imagine your future if you got to work under those vicious corporators. Imagine, with this knowledge & personality, your future in those corporations.
So, what we need is change. Change yourself to see the world changing.
I hope some of these lines pierce your cranium & make you think. If there was something uncanny on my part, i strongly apologize.
Feedback at: ishfaqpir@gmail.com
