Monday, September 27, 2004: "What is happening today did not previously exist. In the past, only the dull students who could afford tuition fees used to go to private tutors. Usually they were from well-to-do families. Generally the students did not require private tuition if they were regular to their classes and attentive to their school lessons. It was primarily because in those days the teachers were dedicated to their noble profession. They took special care in the studies and welfare of their students. They were proud of students? better results and improvement. They were not acquainted with the bad practice of cheating in teaching despite economic hardship with many of them. Today?s education system encourages private tuition by schoolteachers too. Private tutoring of school and college students for high tuition fees has become a common practice in Arakan State, Burma..."