Teacher’s Day

In many countries, Teachers’ Day to be special days for the appreciation of teachers, and may include celebrations to honor them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the community in general. The date on which Teachers’ Day is celebrated varies from country to country. Teachers’ Days are distinct from World Teachers’ Day which is officially celebrated across the world on October 5.

The idea of celebrating Teachers’ Day took ground in many countries during the 20th century; in most cases, they celebrate a local educator or an important milestone in education (for example, Argentina has commemorated Domingo Faustino Sarmiento‘s death on September 11 since 1915, while India celebrates Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan‘s birthday on September 5 since 1962). This is the primary reason why countries celebrate this day on different dates, unlike many other International Days.

Teachers’ Day of India: 5^th September

A good teacher has greater influence in shaping the life of an individual even more than his/her parents. In our country’s culture, a teacher has been given a place above the almighty god. A good teacher’s proper guidance and support are very important in achieving one’s goal in life. Every successful individual always remembers the constructive role played by his/her teacher in their school-college days.

Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year on the 5^th of September to honor and acknowledge the contribution made by countless numbers of teachers in helping and molding the careers of lakhs of students and in turn shaping the destiny of India.

Origin of Teacher’s Day Celebration

The day was marked for the celebration as Teachers’ Day since 1962 in respect and deference of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was born on 5^th September 1988. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a great scholar, philosopher, and teacher of modern India and was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1954. He became the second President of India in 1962. Therefore it was only natural that his birthday would be celebrated to pay respect towards lakhs of unknown teachers across the country. It was his wish that instead of celebrating his birthday on the 5^th of September every year, it would be better to celebrate it as Teachers’ Day in the whole of India.

India’s teacher’s day is different from World Teacher Day which is celebrated on the 5^th of October every year in the whole world.

Mode of Celebration:

On this day in every school of the country, students arrange and perform various types of cultural programs and activities as a token of love and respect towards their teachers. Outstanding teachers are also given prizes for their contribution to the development of schools and bringing good results from students.

Students also give personal gifts to their favorite teachers to express their affection and gratitude. A life-long bond is developed among teachers and students. Teachers also feel special as their hard work and honesty are recognized on this day.

The role of teachers in the making of a nation is most important and significant; therefore it is necessary that we pay our utmost respect and gratitude to them and celebrate the 5^th of September as a day of special teacher-student bonding.

Quotes on Teachers Day

A teacher plays a great role in the student’s lives. Teachers are the real shapers of the future of the students which can never be ignored. Teachers make their own lesson plans to make education more effective and interesting as well as facilitate students learning. Here we have listed some effective, inspiring, motivational and interesting quotes and quotations about teachers said by the famous and popular personalities all over the world. You can use such quotes to wish your teachers on their birthdays, teachers’ day or other special occasions.

“I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India.” – Narendra Modi

“We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.” – Narendra Modi

“Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.” – Narendra Modi

“We must question why the smartest students don’t choose to become teachers.” – Narendra Modi

“When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can’t we do it in India.” – Narendra Modi

“As students, I am sure you have several dreams. If you are determined to move ahead nothing can stop you. Our youth are talented.” – Narendra Modi

“India is a youthful nation. Can’t we think of exporting good teachers?” – Narendra Modi

“It’ easy to find information on Google guru but that’s not equal to gaining knowledge.” – Narendra Modi

“Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.” – Narendra Modi

“If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.” – Narendra Modi

“If your education is not enough, the experience will teach you lessons.” – Narendra Modi

“One should play and sweat. Life shouldn’t be bogged down by books.” – Narendra Modi

“Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it’s a social crime.” – Narendra Modi

“Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.” – Narendra Modi

“We want to make nation-building a people’s movement.” – Narendra Modi

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” – Carl Jung

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” – John Henrik Clarke

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” – John Steinbeck

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” – Swami Vivekananda

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” – Dr. Seuss

“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.” – Joe Manchin

“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” – Charles Kuralt

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” – Khalil Gibran

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

“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” – Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren

“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

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

“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

“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie

“The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.” – Robert Brault

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

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

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

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.” – Maria Montessori

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great

“You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.” – Elisabeth Rohm

“A good teacher is a determined person.” – Gilbert Highet

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” – Andy Rooney

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” – Lee Iacocca

“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.” – Maria Callas

“I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.” – James Levine

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

“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” – Michael Porter

PM Modi’s Speech on Teachers Day 2015

As per the Media report: PM Modi has addressed the mass of students on teachers day 2015 a day before the 5th of September means on the 4th of September between 10am and 11.45am. He has given his speech a day before as the 5th of September is a holiday in 2015 due to the Janmashtami festival.

He has interacted with the students all across the country on the 4^th of September in order to share some tips on public speaking. He answered the question of a student (“How have you achieved such mastery in oratory?”), who was very curious to know how the PM gives speeches without a script. PM Modi answered that “To be a good orator, you need to be a good listener. You need to listen with your eyes and your mind,”. He also motivated the students by saying that “Don’t worry about what people will say. Don’t be nervous. You should be confident,”.

He said that what you want to say just write down “That will help you sharpen your speech,”. He also suggested students take help from Google and YouTube and said that “You are google guru Vidyarthi (students) after all. If you see other speeches online, you will gain confidence,”.

He was also questioned by a student about leadership for which he answered, “To be a leader, you should be attached to people. Their pain should give you sleepless nights,”. He urged students to think for, ”why they would want to become leaders”, “for happiness, elections or to solve problems.”

The controversy around PM Modi’s Teachers’ Day Speech on 5 September 2014

Though the children of India have been celebrating Teacher’s Day as a day when they express their love and respect for their teachers and in turn teachers also show their affection for their pupils, but this year’s Teachers’ Day on 5^th of September 2014 is in news for a reason other than a simple student-teacher event.

As per the directives of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry all government and private schools across the country were asked by the Government to ensure and arrange for PM Narendra Modi’s live televised Teachers’ Day speech and interaction with school children at the Manekshaw Auditorium in Delhi.

The said directive also stated that schools will have to arrange for televisions, cable connections, and projectors, etc. so that students can also see the question-and-answer session which will be telecast live on Doordarshan between 3 pm to 4.45 pm.

Controversial Directive:

But the directive is being criticized by some schools and opposition parties on the ground that the school children cannot compulsorily be forced to remain in school till 5 pm to watch PM’s speech. Opposition parties are suggesting that the timing of speech should be changed to suit school hours so that small school children will not have to remain in school till evening.

Furthermore, another problem which is being faced by school authorities is that at such short notice they are finding it difficult to arrange technical instruments needed for the live telecast of the Speech as all schools of the country are not well equipped with modern telecommunication instruments and infrastructure.

One more question which is of significance is whether school children can be asked to compulsorily watch and listen to PM’s speech. Though PM of the country has every right to address the students and children of the nation but making them listen to it compulsorily seems unwarranted.

For instance, when PM makes his speech to the nation on the 15^th of August or on 26^th January every year, it is not compulsory for anyone to listen to it and everyone is at his or her liberty to either listen to it or not. Then why Teachers’ day speech of the PM is being made compulsory for school children across the country?

Hopefully, the controversies around Teachers’ Day will not affect the auspiciousness of the day which is being celebrated every year on 5^th of September in the memory of a great educationist and scholar President Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and the sanctity and usefulness of Teacher’s Day will not be marred in pointless political controversies.

It would be better if Teachers’ Day remains as a day of Teacher-Student bonding of love and respect as it has always been.

Speech on Teacher’s Day

We have provided below variety of speeches on teachers’ day under various word limits for the students to fulfill their needs. All the speeches are written using very simple and easy words, especially for the student’s use. Using such speeches students can actively participate in the speech recitation on teacher’s day and express their hearty emotions for their favorite teacher in the school or college. Dear students you can select any of the speech given below:

Teachers Day Speech 1

Good morning to the respected teachers and my dear colleagues. As we all know the reason for the nice gathering here in such a huge crowd. We are here to celebrate Teacher’s day today and to give them our heartily tribute for their hard efforts of making our and nation’s future. Today is the 5^th of September and on this day we celebrate teachers day every year with lots of joy, happiness, and enthusiasm. First of all I would like to thank my class teacher to give me such a big opportunity to speech here at this great occasion. My dear friends, today on the occasion of Teachers Day, I would like to speech on the importance of teachers in our life in English.

5^th of September is celebrated as Teachers’ Day all over the India every year. Actually, the 5^th of September is the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who was a great scholar and teacher. In his later life first, he became the Vice President of the Indian republic and then the President of the Indian republic.

Students all across the country observe this day to pay respect to their teachers. It is truly said that teachers are like the backbone of our society. They play a great role in building up the characters of students and shape them to become ideal citizens of India.

Teachers teach students very carefully and sincerely just like their own children. It is well said that teachers are great than parents. Parents give birth to a child whereas teachers shape his/her character and make the future bright. Thus we never forget and ignore them, we always respect and love them. Our parents are responsible for giving us love and quality care however our teachers are responsible for making the whole future bright and successful. They let us know the importance of education in our life through their continuous efforts. They are the source of inspiration to us which help us to go ahead and get success. They motivate us towards study by giving examples of great personalities all over the world. They make us so strong and prepare to withstand any obstacle of life. They become full of immense knowledge and wisdom using which they nourish our lives. Come on my dear friends, say together that ‘our respected teachers we are always grateful to you for all you do to us’. My dear friends, we should always obey our teacher’s orders and follow their advice to be the worthy citizens of India.

Thank You

Teachers Day Speech 2

Very good morning to the Principal, respected teachers and my dear colleagues. We are here today to celebrate the most honorable occasion of Teachers day. Really it is an honorable occasion to all the students all over India. It is observed every year to pay respect to the teachers from their obedient students. So, dear friends come on and join this celebration to pay heartily respect to our own teachers. They are called as the backbone of our society because they highly contribute in building up our characters, shaping our future and help us to be ideal citizens of the country.

Teacher’s day is celebrated all across India every year on the 5^th of September to pay tribute to the teachers for their precious contributions in our study as well as towards the society and country. There is a great reason behind the celebration of the teacher’s day on the 5^th of September. Actually, the 5^th of September is the birthday of Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. He was a great person and highly devoted to education. He was well known as the scholar, diplomat, Vice President of India, President of India and most importantly the Teacher. After his selection as the Indian President in 1962, he was asked and requested by the students to get permission to celebrate his birthday on 5^thof September. However, he replied that, instead of celebrating the 5^th of September as my personal birthday, it would be better if it is dedicated to the whole teaching profession. And 5^th of September should be celebrated as teachers’ day all over India to pay honor to the teaching profession.

For all students of India, Teachers’ Day is like an occasion and opportunity to pay tribute and gratitude to their teachers for their continuous, selfless and precious efforts in shaping the future. They are the reason to enrich all the quality education system in the country and process it continuously without getting tired. Our teachers never consider us less than their own children and teach us from their hearts. As kids, we need inspiration and motivation which we surely get from our teachers. They prepare us to tackle any bad situation of life through knowledge and patience. Dear teachers, we are really grateful to all of you and would be forever.

Thank You

Teachers Day Speech 3

Good morning to the respected Principal, teachers and my dear friends. As we all know that we are here to celebrate teachers’ day today. My self, _______ studying in class __ would like to speech on the occasion of Teachers Day. But first of all, I would like to thank my class teacher to offer me such a great opportunity to speech on teachers’ day. The title of my speech is, why teachers are so important in our life.

In India, teachers’ day is celebrated by the students on the 5^th of September every year. It is the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishan. His birth date is being celebrated as teachers’ day every year from the time when he became President of India in 1962 after the student’s request.

Teachers really play key roles in education and student’s life. Teachers generally become a person with proper vision, knowledge, and experience. The teaching profession is a profession of great responsibility than any other job. The teaching profession has a great impact on the growth, development and well being of the students and nation. According to the Madan Mohan Malavia (founder of Banaras Hindu University), a teacher is “…….It Lies Largely In His Teacher’s Hand To Mould The Mind Of The Child Who Is Father Of The Man. If He Is Patriotic And Devoted To The National Cause And Realizes His Responsibility, He Can Produce A Race Of Patriotic Men And Women Who Would Religiously Place The Country Above The Community And National Gain Above Communal Advantage.”

An ideal teacher becomes courteous all the time without being impartial and not affected by insult. Teachers are like parents in the school for all students. They do their best to maintain the health and concentration levels of the students. They motivate students to participate in extracurricular activities also besides studies in order to improve students’ minds level.

I am going to recite some well said quotes on education, students and teachers by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi during his interaction with students on the Teachers’ Day:

• “Education should become a force for the nation’s character building.”
• “Dialogue with students: Enjoy childhood. Don’t let the child in you die.”
• “We must restore respect for the teacher in our society.”
• “Can’t India dream of exporting good teachers?”
• “Children can contribute to nation-building through cleanliness, saving electricity and water.”

Teachers Day Speech 4

Very good morning to the Principal sir, respected teachers, and my dear colleagues gathered here. We all are collected here to celebrate an occasion called teachers day. Today is the 5^th of September which is being celebrated as teachers day in all the schools and colleges by the students to pay honor to the teachers for their valuable contribution to the society and country by imparting knowledge and shaping the career of students. Celebration of Teachers Day has been a popular event in the country from the time it was started celebrating after the student’s request to Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishan. 5^th of September is the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishan which is celebrated as teachers day. Students pay honor to their teachers for selfless effort in shaping the career and enriching the education system all over the country.

Teachers’ day is celebrated as a special event in many countries at different dates. In China, it is celebrated on the 10^th of September every year. The aim of celebrating this event in all countries is generally to pay honor to the teachers and admire all the achievements in the field of education. A huge preparation takes place in the schools and colleges by the students while celebrating this event. A range of students participates in cultural programs, speech, and other activities in order to make this event special and memorable. Some students celebrate this event in their own way by presenting their favorite teachers a colorful flower, teachers day cards, gifts, e-greeting cards, SMS, messages, etc to respect and admire them.

Teachers’ day celebration is a wonderful opportunity for all the students to do something for their teachers in their respect and honor. It is also like an appreciation to the new teachers to become a responsible teacher in the future towards education. As being a student, I always would be grateful to all the teachers in my life.

Thank You

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