Education serves the needs of two main groups: society and the students. Society needs education for its proliferation. To continue to exist and thrive, Pakistani society needs universities to educate students who can reason and make enlightened decisions regarding commerce and government. Moreover, society needs institutions to assimilate its young citizens into its values and ideologies. This ensures “a more peaceable and uniform government. The students need institutions to teach them the knowledge and skills necessary to survive and thrive in Pakistani society. Their education needs to help them reach their potential. Students also need the school to provide them with a feeling of inclusion. In other words, students need to see that they can attain their “Dream” regardless of their present status in life.www.tutorfinder.com.pk
The role of teachers is fundamental in blending the needs of society and the needs of the student. In many ways, teachers are society ambassadors who are sent to prepare new citizens for their role in society. Teachers need to be a welcoming force that encourages students to “buy-in” to the learning process and value school’s importance in for the future of the individual. Teachers need to be interpreters who help students understand the world and what society expects of this citizen. Teachers become change agents who plant the ideology of prosperous“dreams” deep within the soul of the students, and then encourage their students to achieve goals and objectives in pursuit of the dream, much like the “intuitional agents”. Teachers are also advocates for the students. They need to understand the student, identify their learning styles, empower them to build their strengths, and work with them to overcome their deficiencies.
Because teachers service both the society and the students, they are often challenged by conflicting needs. For teachers the most challenging question becomes “Who will I serve?” This question becomes even more difficult when we go beyond the ideal concepts of students and society and look at the actual conditions. As we have discussed throughout our class, Pakistan is somewhat ethnically diverse. Within a single classroom there can be multiple first languages, diverse cultures and religions, multiple economic conditions, and a vast continuum of knowledge and abilities. “No life is the same.” Hence no student is the same, which means you can’t exactly treat every student the same. To say you can fails to acknowledge individual needs. Correspondingly, society is very ambiguous. Our political structure, our invasive popular culture, and our corporate-media strongholds send us very conflicting messages. How does a teacher prepare a student for a society that is difficult to understand?
Realistically, no teacher will ever meet the needs of everyone all the time. I personally advocate that teachers work within the system to teach in a way that they believe will best serve the “public good.” In other words, teaching should be a decision making process. Teachers must rely on their reason, their experience, and their morals to best meet the needs of society and students. They need to be in tune with how their students are learning and adjusting, while being aware of what the current political-economy wants from its students even if that means dealing with “No Student Left Behind”. They must also be reflective of their effectiveness as a teacher. They should be the “life learners” and study their profession, subject matter, and their students as best they can. To best serve their students and the society, teachers must be as effective as they can be.
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