The existence of teachers has been an indispensable need for children all over the world. Especially in the past, life without a teacher was absolutely absurd. Regarding the topic question, while some people believe that teachers are valued the same as they used to be, I personally believe that people don’t value and care about them anymore. Below are the reasons why.
First of all, I absolutely believe that the main reason is that today’s people don’t feel helpless at all with the advancement of technology. In particular, with the advent of cellphones, laptops and tablets that made the learning process just a simple click away than before, students no longer depend on teachers. You can google all course materials. Also, they can share their information and knowledge with their friends on social networks like Google Meet, WhatsApp or Telegram with the simplicity of drinking water. Therefore, they can deepen their knowledge at home and not waste time going to school. For example, I have a perceptive nephew who is in elementary school. I saw him doing his homework at home. He wisely searches for any questions he had without asking her mother or me. The interesting thing is that he was so curious about the subjects that his teacher hadn’t been interested in yet, and he searched them on the Internet and learned them with an instructional video from YouTube. This case made me compare myself and my dependence on my teacher to many options available today.
There is also another subtle point that teachers are not important. With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, the world went online. Therefore, all universities and companies have informed themselves about how to proceed online. In this way, the students did not gradually interact with the teachers, and they found that the existence of teachers is not as bold as before. I want to give an example from my own experience. During my master’s period, when I was working on my thesis, everything was closed due to Corona. So I had to continue my dissertation remotely and my professor was so busy to help me with it. The result was that I did all my stuff lonely by searching the internet. Every time I think about this matter I don’t appreciate my professor for not helping me but I thank myself for overcoming all the challenges I had along the way and I realized that its existence is not so valuable.
In summary, different people have different opinions about teacher appreciation in the past and today with positive and negative aspects. I firmly believe that not only are teachers still valued, but they are gradually being abandoned due to the importance of the internet and people’s independence.