Teachers = Farmers

This interesting analogy might sound absurd to most, but according to Professor Lee Sing Kong, Director of the National Institute of Education at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, during his keynote address presentation called 'Teaching for the 21st Century' at yesterday's Teachers' Conference, there are a number of great similarities between the two professions.

which one are you? :)

A horticulturalist by training, he said that farmers give the same kind of attention to their crops as teachers would to their students. Both nurture, look after, give attention to, care about and make sure that their subject grow to become something, or someone, that is healthy and green (for crops) or educated and useful to the community and nation (for students). Therefore, teachers have tremendous powers in affecting students.

According to Dr Caroline Pontefract, Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat's Social Transformation Programmed Division, said that Brunei is fortunate to have a high level of education and literacy rate in her keynote address presentation `Teacher Standard: International Perspective'.

She shared that out of 125 countries, only 47 have achieved the goals of Education For All (EFA). According to her, 78.1 million adults (one in five worldwide) lack the basic literacy skills, and two-thirds of these are women.

She also said the acute shortage of qualified teachers is identified as the biggest challenge of the education system. These two speakers and many more contributed their knowledge, as well as expertise in the progression of teachers at yesterday's conference.

-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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