Dear Editor,
They are assigned the responsibility to mould the nation and keep doing a fantastic job despite the challenges. While there is always appreciation for our teachers’ investment in us, today (October 5) World Teacher’s Day, is identified to pay them special attention. They are to be thanked for all that they do! This year’s theme ‘Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status’ is befitting of all teachers who are the fundamental building blocks in nation building.
Students appreciate that they have risen to the mission to mould minds and guide us into opening new vistas of knowledge. They unleash talents and abilities, unlearn negative stereotypes, appreciate the destructive nature of discrimination, and bring to our little world the wider world.
It cannot be an easy task to harness competing interests and energies, bringing together diverse talents, cultures and backgrounds in the delivery of universal education. It cannot be easy, yet our teachers have embraced these challenges effortlessly. This extraordinary group of workers deserves every attention given them.
The teacher’s work is never done. When students leave for their respective homes and get about their individual lives, the teacher takes the students’ collective lives to his/her home, preparing future study material and marking papers, simultaneously responding to duties within the home.
Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation, a calling, and for that teachers are valued. This calling is appreciated by students and the government of the day which has undertaken the task of improving the education environment.
To teachers everywhere, at every level in the education system, thank you for all that you do.
Yours faithfully,
Sharma Solomon
