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5th September is the teachers day and I would like to wish HAPPY TEACHERS DAY to all the teachers who are shaping the future of their students. Also I would like to wish Very Very Happy Teachers Day to the teachers who have taught me. Teachers are still highly respected in India even in the days of Professionalism.

I saw an excellent article about how 5th September was started as Teachers Day Celebration. Following are some of the excerpts about the article, for full article please visit the link in the Source at the end of the article.

In India 5th September is celebrated as Teachers’ day as a mark of tribute to the contribution made by teachers to the society. 5th September is the birthday of a great teacher Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, who was a staunch believer of education, and was the well-known diplomat, scholar, president of India and above all a teacher.

When Dr. Radhakrishnan became the President of India in 1962,he was approached by some of his students and friends and requested him to allow them to celebrate 5th September, his “birthday”. In reply, Dr.Radhakrishnan said, “instead of celebrating my birthday separately, it would be my proud privilege  if September 5 is observed as Teachers’ day”. The request showed Dr.Radhakrishnan’s love for the teaching profession. From then onwards, the day has been observed as Teachers’ Day in India.

One of the most celebrated writers in the modern India today his work varies on philosophical, theological, ethical, educational, social and cultural subjects. He contributed numerous articles to different well-known journals, which, are of immense value and seems to surprise various readers because of the depth in the meaning of the articles.

Teachers mold the lives that they influence because the lessons learned from teachers remain with their students throughout life. We should always respect our teachers. Teachers need encouragement and support from the community to feel that their devotion to students is appreciated.

Teacher’s day is now one of the occasions that is looked forward by the teachers and students alike as on this occasion its not only when teachers are praised but also around various schools students dress up as a representation of their teachers and take various lectures that are assigned to the teachers they represent. As the day passes the students perform the regular activities that are performed by the teacher’s. On this day students realize what it means to be a teacher and what it means to control the future of several students in their classes and also teachers are reminded what it felt like when they were the students.

Apart from the fun aspect of the day it is also a day when one can look back, admire and get inspired by Dr. Radhakrishnan, a small town cunning boy, who grew up to become one of the most respected politicians in the history of democracy of India.

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So frieds whatever be the busy schedule please take out some time and call or sms your teachers wishing them Happy Teachers Day. That will really  make them proud.

Following are some of the teachers day quotes.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Author Unknown

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Author - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -Jacques Barzun

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. –Bob Talbert

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. –Amos Bronson Alcott

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. –Eugene P. Bertin

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. –William Arthur Ward

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. –Author Unknown

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. –Karl Menningervv

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” –Dan Rather

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. –Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. –Author Unknown

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. –Author Unknown

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” –Henry Brooks Adams

“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.” –Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” –Japanese proverb

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” –Anatole France

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. –Aristotle
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money –Author unknown

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~Horace Mann

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
~Bob Talbert

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
~K. Patricia Cross

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~Anonymous Teacher

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
~Haim G. Ginott

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the “naturals,” the ones who somehow know how to teach.
~Peter Drucker

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