ASSESSMENT ON THE ETHICAL IMPLICATION OF DESPOTIC ACTION ON STUDENT-TEACHERS RELATIONS

Abstract

It is glaring that Searching for and acquiring an indubitable knowledge is the main concerns of every individual in life, invariably the main concern of the learners. However, reflecting on cordial relationship which is expected to exist between the teacher and student towards acquiring knowledge cannot be underestimated in the field of academy. In learner's view, teacher is known to be an organizer and moderator of child's teaching who coaches or impacts knowledge on students by virtue of his qualification, skills and experience. Notwithstanding, Robinson Crusoe once asserts that man is not an island of knowledge, nor has an absolute means to knowledge, meaning that knowledge is collective activities of two or more contributors. Through critical and semantic evaluation, the paper identified despotic attitude as one of the main factors responsible for moral self-indulgence and educational problem alongside poor relationship between the teachers and the students in this contemporary period. It is on this note that this paper apt at critically reflect on the despotic attitude of the teacher towards student learning process and its implication towards teacher-student relations. This paper therefore harps that despotic attitude has constituted a threat to ethics of man relationship. The strength of the paper more so lies in its effort to establish the fact that the extent to which pragmatic education will inculcate morality in teacher-student's relations will contribute to meaningful human development.