Role of Teacher in Quality Enhancement

Higher education in India is no longer an autonomous endeavor as it attained to be a few decades ago. Higher education in India is undergoing a significant change both in content and method. The change is more pronounced in the organization and management rather than in the quality orientation. The contemporary society is considered as a knowledge society. With the unprecedented growth of knowledge, especially in the area of information and communication in this global village, competitiveness has become a decisive force of growth. India's young population has a huge appetite for education. This necessitates a great improvement of higher education of the country so that availability of internationally competitive and highly skilled manpower can be assured. Here begins the role of a teacher. A teacher is not merely an disperse of knowledge, he is a helper too. A teacher has to play a vital role to foster human values by creating learning opportunities. In the classroom messages of love, safety, security, belongingness, warmth respect and mutual trust are disseminated. Here obviously the role of a teacher is important because no curriculum can be implemented without his sincere effort. Therefore, there are greater demands on the teachers for deliberate educational effort towards value inculcation among the youth. We have to fight the cynicism in the society about the erosion of values and reinstate the old trust and confidence in our educational system.