Whither teaching ethics?

It is an open secret that the private universities are doing roaring business in offering mass-produced degrees, like the so-called manpower agencies that send our labour abroad under false promises. Also there are numerous advertisements in the press of lucrative courses of higher studies abroad. Boom in sunshine or shadow?

The trend is shady economic boom that is also seen in other sectors such as politics (which has now become a business). Air-conditioned shopping malls for the quick-rich class and handling costly projects in the public sector and re-tendering many times to please certain groups (plus the resultant delays which are not at all in public interest, such as the undersea cable and the performance of the public telephone sector).

What is happening to the morality of the teachers? Who will teach the teachers? It is a fundamental question, and this type of question should not arise in any good and healthy changing society. Our education is turning to cosmetic teachingsaplings without roots, or the right type of soil. The future of Bangladesh is not bright, as the adverse after -effects are delayed and will last for a long time (at least a generation).

We are too obsessed with bad politics. The services rendered by the politicians to the 'developing' society is marginal, to say the least. Where are the national debates and the mass-awareness campaigns?