Editor,

Being a professional teacher of English and literature, I rally behind the expressions that there are habits which merely resemble teaching, but in actual sense, they are decaying organism in the teaching and learning processes.

These habits, which I would need a national seminar to bring out clearly, end up depicting "teaching” as a business rather than a profession. In the long run, some of our beloved learners, at whichever academic levels, also develop negative attitudes in education, treating it as a programme which only has genesis, but not model and bright vision, hence, a punishment and time wasting, but not a pride to them.

Accordingly, I appeal to our dear teachers to always deploy all their professional muscles so as to make our beloved learners not only to like them and the disciplines they handle, but also love education as a pride and an investment.

Danny Okongo

I would like to react to the story, "Teachers’ platform: Do students love your subject?” (The New Times, November 12)