1. Teachers’ Day Speech
September 5th is the Birth anniversary of one of the modern India’s most notable
Teachers and philosophers, the Late Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who was Independent
India’s second President. We have been observing it ever since his passing away as
our country’s Teachers’ Day.
Just as a country is as good as its people, so its citizens are only as good as their
teachers. Therefore a great deal depends on you, teachers, and I salute you, all of
you for your passion, dedication, commitment and contributions. It is the teacher who
sees a statue in the stone block. It he who identifies a spark in the child and turns it
into fire. And surely the student is a bank where you deposit your most precious
treasures.
Teachers who inspire, realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of
us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use
them. Who dares to teach must progressively discover his own ignorance. A lawyer’s
mistake is lost in the records, a doctor’s mistake is buried in the graveyard but a
teacher’s mistake reflects into the future.
In classrooms we don’t just have to deliver knowledge but to enable pupils to
understand and address complexities of modern life. The dynamism in knowledge and
explosion of newer information poses a challenge of continuous up gradation of your
competency by acquiring, maintaining and demonstrating highest values and character.
As the country is poised to be a knowledge superpower, therefore your role, in
development of quality talent since the formative age of children, at the primary and
middle level, is crucial in achieving country’s progress.
Teaching is the mother of all professions. Teacher’s day reminds us of responsibilities
and commitments towards shaping the future generations in taking up still higher
challenges and making our country, an advanced and developed nation with high
sensitivity towards general welfare of the society.

2. We need not wait for special occasions such as this to celebrate the work our
teachers are doing, we should celebrate it every single day by co-operating and giving
our best in and out of the classroom. We must inspire our fellow learners and be the
best versions of ourselves that we can be.
Thank you