Teachers’ methods of teaching must change, the Minister for Education and Primary and Mass Education, Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon, has said. Classroom education must be provided and creative education introduced, he said, adding that sweeping change had to be brought to education.
He made the remarks on Monday as chief guest at a views-exchange meeting with officials in charge of centres for the HSC and equivalent examinations of 2026, held at the Birsreshtha Ruhul Amin Auditorium of Noakhali Science and Technology University.
The minister said many teachers did not enrol their own children in the schools where they taught, reflecting a lack of confidence. ‘This is the mentality of our teachers,’ he said. ‘Why can you not make your own institution into that kind of institution? You have to ask yourself this question.’
He said: ‘Will you just provide a service like a government official? You run in-house coaching. There are around 200 heads of educational institutions here. If you do not run in-house coaching, how will students do well? The 2027 SSC syllabus has been completed; give them in-house coaching, and results will improve. Everyone together must arrange in-house coaching.’
‘Have you seen our prime minister?’ he said. ‘I do not know whether any other country’s prime minister lives such a simple life. He wants a capable generation. Who prevented exam cheating, Milon or you? Who builds the next generation? You do. Please teach your own children in your own schools.’
On teacher recruitment, the minister said assistant teachers for primary schools had earlier been appointed overnight, but he had adopted a new method requiring training first. ‘We do not have the capacity to train so many thousands of teachers at once, so I arranged two months of training. After that they will join,’ he said.
On litigation, the minister said: ‘I arranged for head-teacher appointments through the NTRCA, and there is litigation over that too, holding it up. Whatever I do, there is a case. There are more than 30,000 cases in the education ministry. I have several cases myself. The court has now taken a favourable view of the education ministry, and every case’s tangle will be untangled. We will gradually begin teacher appointments.’
He said about 77,000 teacher appointments were stuck at the NTRCA. ‘A teacher from Rangpur is working in Kachua, a teacher from Cumilla is working in Barishal, and they are all sitting idle. We are working day and night to arrange transfers as soon as possible,’ he said.
Addressing retired teachers, the minister said he had received an allocation of 200 crore taka. ‘From this, I hope to pay retired teachers. We have to make a start,’ he said.
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