The High Experience Low Cost Home Tutor

To understand why and how much a teacher or home tutor has to worth, it is important to understand what they do and how they are important. Because worth often depends on importance. 

About what they do, we can say they are builders of the child, the family, the society, the nation and the whole of humanity. All these are closely interrelated. 

We cannot have a good nation or a good society or a good family unless we have a good child. So a good child, a good student, is the primary point of any good whatsoever. If this cannot be good then nothing cannot be good at any stage of human existence.

When the child will turn to a student then teachers have a role to play in their life. They will mentor them to their education and career. Thus teachers will build their future. And hence the future of the society and humanity as whole. 

If this is the role of a teacher we can understand how important they will be in every childs’ and students’ life. Every parent needs to understand this fact. If they are important then the teachers and home tutors are no less anyway. 

Many will say that now there are many alternatives to teachers and home tutors. Like some online videos and e-courses.

Then AI is fast taking every space of human beings including education. They are posing a deep threat to the human teaching profession as a whole. 

Many are expecting that soon human teachers are going to be replaced by sophisticated AI systems. Even AI systems will be far more informed and smarter than the human teachers and home tutors. 

It is true that AI systems have much potential to replace a human teacher. With developing computer hardware and software technologies, AI systems will evolve faster than any other technology.

And soon they will supersede humans in most professions including that of teaching. 

Yes it is true that an AI system can be much more informed and smart than a human. Hence there is the full chance that they will replace human teachers and home tutors in most places. Still I have a question……

Is it really possible that an AI system will deliver that level of mentorship and leadership a human teacher or home tutor can deliver to his or her students? 

Education is not just a relay race to pass on the baton of information from one hand to another. Education is much more than that. 

Today the question of online videos, courses and artificial intelligent systems are arising. It is said that these can communicate valuable educational information to students. 

Yes they do. But they have not begun this concept of information communication. Many resources such as books and study materials were there for many centuries to do this job of information communication. 

But that does not anyhow devalue or compromise the value of human teaching in a students academic life. Because teachers and home tutors are not just machines for information transfer. They are much more than that.

Can we imagine any online video or course or any AI system can replace a teacher in the areas of leadership and mentorship? Can any AI robot become the mentor of a human being? 

Even imagining something like this creates tremors of fear in me. I can see a big question of doubt in the well-being of human life and education in the coming days.

Nothing can be more tragic to see a machine as a mentor and leader of a human student. 

Thus we can easily reach the conclusion that a teacher has a very big job, compared to most other jobs. And I think most will agree. 

If so then a big job has to come with big pay. That’s how it should have been. But often we fail to understand these basic levels of economics. Often we invert the values in life. 

I have seen home tuition is among the least rewarded jobs. Whereas a parent knows that the childs’ or students’ education will depend significantly on the home tutor. 

School and college teachers often still receive some rewards in terms of money and facilities. All others remain as deprived as desert. Only a few coaching centre tutors do comparative better or sometimes more. 

But unfortunately in many cases over here the home tutor works much harder and better than most school or college teachers. And also they are paid comparatively worse than school or college teachers. 

When a teacher or home tutor is searched then something has to be looked for. Usually there are two things to look for. It’s either the tutor’s educational qualification or the tutor’s teaching experience. 

Though educational qualification can apparently show the subject expertise of the tutor but that may not be the exact measure for being an effective tutor. 

Experience is often a better measure for any teacher. Even if the educational qualification is not sufficient for any tutor, still high experienced tutors are always a better choice. Why so? 

Because if one is teaching for quite some time and creating value in the academic life and career of students, then it can be supposed that he must be enough and sufficient to perform the same for all the consecutive students. 

Even highly qualified but less experienced teachers may not be able to deliver that level of mentoring performance that an experienced teacher or home tutor can. So often experience counts more than mere academic qualifications. 

Any good thing is usually costly. So does a good teacher or home tutor. Going for the cheap will not make sense when the question is the student’s education.

So if economics permits then it is better to go for at least to a standard price if not costly. 

A teacher or home tutor spends years gaining experience. Throughout they have borne a lot of troubles and hurdles to reach the days of experience. Obviously that did not come cheap to the teacher either.

So how can we expect that to come cheap to us as parents and students?

If the student is economically underprivileged and also perhaps very eager to study then a teacher may consider some benevolence out of good heart. But that is not what every parent should think as granted.

Act of benevolence are for benevolence only. 

So we should keep the mindset of paying the teacher for their contribution of values to the students and academic world.

We need to remember that the future of the whole human civilization stands on the way we are taking our academic world.

Civilizations are run by education and nothing else.