Haresh Sharma’s Those Who Can’t, Teach: A Play About Education System

The play Those Who Can’t, Teach is a famous play of Singapore’s prolific playwright Haresh Sharma. It highlights the lives of teachers and students in a typical secondary school in Singapore. The present paper seeks to explore how the play unfolds the challenges and pressures the teachers and students have to face in modern education system and deconstructs the traditional myths and stereotypes about image of teachers. It explores the dynamics and complexities of teacher-student relationships and roles and responsibilities of a teacher in contemporary era.