The Forgotten Educator

Invisibility in the system contrasts with the impact felt in the classroom.

- Muslim Ahmad Shah

Every morning, Shah Sob buttoned his shirt carefully, the way a teacher should. He tucked his lesson plans under his arm, filled with ideas he had worked on for years.

He had earned NET, SET, a Ph.D., and spent endless nights researching. Everything he had learned and all the effort he had made rested in those papers.

His parents used to say, “Education is worship. A teacher is respected everywhere.”

But the Department of Higher Education had other plans.

Respect had turned into silence.

Shah Sob was a Need Base Academic Arrangement lecturer. They treated him like a tool on a shelf, something bought and left there, to be used when convenient.