Veteran educationist and Sultana Foundation Chairman Dr Naeem Ghani Sunday said that teachers should be given due respect and their services should be recognized at every level in nation-building.
Dr Naeem Ghani said this while speaking at the launching ceremony of a campaign titled ‘Teachers as Nation-Builders’.
According to a press release here, he said the teachers could be rightly called nation-builders as due to their persistence, love and navigation towards the right path, we had built our nation.
He said that teachers built characters and personalities, which led the nation towards final destination. Teachers should be considered the second parents of students, he said adding that an ideal teacher was a great motivator who encouraged a student to generate a zealous hope to approach and achieve his goals and aspirations.
‘A teacher also imparts lessons in ethics and morals and serves as an important role model for children, therefore they must be appreciated and respected while teachers should also realise their importance and responsibilities’.
Teachers must be provided better facilities and incentives to continue their struggle for development of nation, he demanded. He informed that Sultana Foundation would observe the year 2017 as teacher’s year and disseminate material among the policy makers and media, sensitizing them about the respect and role of a teachers in the nation-building.
More than 200 teachers have been enrolled as torch bearers of this campaign and teachers of government and private schools would also be invited to take part in this movement.
He said that everyone must strive to improve educational system, try to get thirty million children that were not going to schools and change the mind-set of society toward teaching community otherwise national development would remain a far cry. Experts from different walks of life also spoke on the occasion.
