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RE: Why do teachers easily punish students?
The problem stems from having one teacher for many students. They cannot effectively play the mentor role and spend time with each child, nor can they direct that child in correct behaviour. Instead, they have many pupils, all of different personalities and at different intellectual stages and development. In order to maintain order in the class room, they can use rewards or punishment, and punishment is the easy way out.
That is one of the problems in our country. This limitation causes us as teachers to work hard.
Thank you for your comment!
As a teacher, you immediately have my respect. Passing on knowledge is the most important thing a person can do, apart from teaching critical, logical and rational thought process and how to do research yourself.
The old saying - give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Sure you can impart all the knowledge the world has to offer, but with out teaching people how to analyse the knowledge they have and research further, it is useless.