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  When Teachers Become Machines: The Forgotten Dignity of Teaching in the Private Education System There is something deeply wrong with an education system that wants teachers to build the character of children while systematically breaking the dignity of the people who teach them. We talk endlessly about student success, academic performance, fee recovery, results, admissions, discipline, attendance, marketing and institutional reputation . But somewhere in this race, we seem to have forgotten one basic question: Who is the teacher? Is a teacher merely an employee who enters the institution in the morning, performs an endless list of duties, stands for hours, teaches classes, supervises breaks, performs morning duties, manages students, completes paperwork, attends meetings, prepares results, handles administrative tasks and leaves exhausted at the end of the day? Is a teacher a machine? Does a teacher have no emotions? No family? No physical limits? No difficult days? ...