Do Teachers Really Have it Easy?

Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta in a thought-provoking post: In the Classroom, says:

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I’ve always felt that the schoolrooms ought to be the living, joyful centre of a community. That primary education should really, literally, be primary.

But does the community think so? [. . .]

She then raises a number of important questions about the state of education in India: What is it really like in schools across India? Why teachers are treated so poorly? Why do people have such a negative view of teaching and teachers?

Do read this excellent post. And all the links that it points to.

Here's a related post that I had made earlier: Killing Higher Education in India.