Government has been called to design an effective policy to encourage and re-orientate teachers to put in their best for the enhancement of education in the nation. An academic with Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Port Harcourt, Dr. Scholarlastica Amadi stated this in an interview with our correspondent.
Dr. Amadi who frowned at lackadaisical attitude expressed by some teachers attributed the poor approach to duty to poor welfare package and ineptitude of the government.
“The salary is important but when you dampen the enthusiasm and spirit, the motivation of the teachers to teach would fall no one would have that spirit again.
However the teachers if you do not have the passion because if you are passionate on what you do, you will desire the day you would be called to do it”, she noted.
Dr. Amadi criticized the fallen standard of discipline in the academic institutions and advocated the return of discipline as it were in the past.
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“Spare the rod and spoil the child, when you remember that very long cane you will do it right, when you remember the size of your school field with the thick grasses left for students that misbehaved or failed to do want they supposed to do you will be scared.
The idea of policymakers asking teachers not to discipline the students in anyway, for me it is outright wrong, it is theoretically nonsense,” she explained.
Dr. Amadi was of the opinion that the entire educational system be overhauled to reflect the global best practices for the 21st century Nigerian students to compete with their counterparts in other climes.
