Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume 6 | Issue 1
Mental Health and Job Satisfaction of College Teachers
Louise V.L. Rinsangi
DOI:10.30954/2454-9525.01.2018.7
Abstract:
Education is the most powerful and influencing medium of development. Teachers are the pivot of all the educational institution. The future of a nation and the quality of any educational institution mainly depends on the teachers. Quality of education mostly depends on the teachers and quality of teachers depends on their personal as well as the professional quality. So, it is necessary to improve the quality and effectiveness of the teachers. Mental health and job satisfaction are the two pre-requisites of the teachers. Both of these are important for the teachers to perform their duties and responsibilities properly. The Indian Education Commission (1966) described teacher as one of the most important factors contributing to the national development. The best system of education may fail to achieve the desired ends in the absence of sincere, competent and professionally aware teachers. National Policy on Education (1986) rightly stated “No pupils can rise above the level of its teachers”. Effective teachers are required in the classroom because even the best curriculum and most perfect syllabus remain ineffective in the absence of a good teacher. Tagore has rightly said that “only lighted lamp can lighten another” which means that only an enlightened teacher who remain ever alive and struggling in the pursuit of knowledge, could enlighten his pupils and could enthuse them for more learning. The teachers should be a model to his own image in the mind of his teachers. It is the teacher who can create a national perspective for understanding social and economic difference in the nation.
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