Teachers Day Speech
- 1. Teachers’ Day Speech September 5th is the Birth anniversary of one of the modern India’s most notable Teachers and philosophers, the Late Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who was Independent India’s second President. We have been observing it ever since his passing away as our country’s Teachers’ Day. Just as a country is as good as its people, so its citizens are only as good as their teachers. Therefore a great deal depends on you, teachers, and I salute you, all of you for your passion, dedication, commitment and contributions. It is the teacher who sees a statue in the stone block. It he who identifies a spark in the child and turns it into fire. And surely the student is a bank where you deposit your most precious treasures. Teachers who inspire, realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. Who dares to teach must progressively discover his own ignorance. A lawyer’s mistake is lost in the records, a doctor’s mistake is buried in the graveyard but a teacher’s mistake reflects into the future. In classrooms we don’t just have to deliver knowledge but to enable pupils to understand and address complexities of modern life. The dynamism in knowledge and explosion of newer information poses a challenge of continuous up gradation of your competency by acquiring, maintaining and demonstrating highest values and character. As the country is poised to be a knowledge superpower, therefore your role, in development of quality talent since the formative age of children, at the primary and middle level, is crucial in achieving country’s progress. Teaching is the mother of all professions. Teacher’s day reminds us of responsibilities and commitments towards shaping the future generations in taking up still higher challenges and making our country, an advanced and developed nation with high sensitivity towards general welfare of the society.
- 2. We need not wait for special occasions such as this to celebrate the work our teachers are doing, we should celebrate it every single day by co-operating and giving our best in and out of the classroom. We must inspire our fellow learners and be the best versions of ourselves that we can be. Thank you