Former Minister of Education: Correlation between Economic Growth and High Efficiency and Teacher Education and Empowerment of Teachers
At the closing ceremony of the event “Mim Mesle Moalem (T like Teacher)” hosted by Farhangian Teacher Education University (FTEU) on February 21st, 2025, Reza Morad Sahraei, the former minister of education considered teachers’ dignity, livelihood, and authority to be the three sides of a triangle and clarified that the government and the Islamic Consultative Assembly are responsible for the issue of teachers’ livelihood and media and parents should take the responsibility of teachers’ dignity while their authority must be maintained by themselves.
He stated that the key to solve the problems of the country is in the hands of teachers so that, in developed countries, there is a significant correlation between the seriousness of recruiting, educating, and empowering teachers and the economic growth and efficiency rate; a country with higher efficiency had held empowering courses for the teachers.
He also set some examples from India and Singapore.