Dear Editor,
They are assigned the responsibility of moulding the nation, and they keep doing a fantastic job despite the challenges. While there remains appreciation for our teachers all year round, September is identified as the month when they are paid special attention. We thank them for all that they do. This year’s theme, ‘Quality Education Leadership: Improving Schools from Within’ is befitting of all teachers whose greatest reward is the ability of their students to function effectively and efficiently in building the nation.
Students appreciate that they have accepted the mission to mould minds, guide them into opening new vistas of knowledge, unleashing talents and abilities, unlearning negative stereotypes, appreciating the destructive nature of discrimination, and bringing to our little world the wider world.
It cannot be an easy task to harness competing interests and energies and bring 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 to them.
A teacher’s work is never done. When students leave for their respective homes and go about their individual lives, the teacher takes the students’ collective lives to his/her home, preparing future study material and marking papers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation, a calling. This calling is appreciated by the minds which have been moulded and by the government of the day which has undertaken the task of improving the education environment. I thank teachers everywhere, at every level in the education system, for all that they do.
Yours faithfully,
Sharma Solomon
