Did you know that next week Tuesday, October 5, is World Teachers’ Day? World Teachers’ Day celebrates teachers all around the globe, and has been observed since 1994!
This year’s theme is “Teachers at the heart of education recovery”. This theme was chosen with the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, and the widespread effects it has had on education all around the world.
World Teachers’ Day 2021 will focus on the support that teachers need to fully contribute to the recovery process. We can all imagine that if it was hard to pay attention, stay motivated and stay on-track while learning from home; it must have been hard for our teachers too! They had to learn new skills and adopt new ways of teaching, all while keeping track of the whole class! We sure can appreciate teachers now more than ever.
Be sure to remember the special day coming up, and to say “thank you” to your teacher for all the work that they do. You may want to make a card, or even a craft to show your appreciation.
Here are some beautiful quotes we found that honour teachers. What do you think of them?
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”
–Guy Kawasaki
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.”
–William Butler Yeats
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
–Thomas Carruthers
“Teaching is the highest form of understanding.”
–Aristotle
“When one teaches, two learn.”
–Robert Heinlein
“A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.”
–Henry Adams
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
–Aristotle
“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”
–Unknown
“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”
–Scott Hayden
“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
–John Steinbeck
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.”
–Gail Goldwin
