World Teachers’ Day: “Teachers: Leading In Crisis, Reimagining The Future”

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing sent a message in commemoration of the World Teachers’ Day falling the on the 5th of October.

In his message, the Senior General prayed for all teachers in the entire Myanmar to enjoy physical and spiritual wellbeing. World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated across the world on October 5 on a yearly basis since 1994. In Myanmar, the Ministry of Education started celebration of the World Teachers’ Day at the Diamond Jubilee Hall of the Yangon University on October 5 of 2002.

Myanmar has had a tradition of paying attributes to the teachers since yore. On the significant day of World Teachers’ Day, it is necessary to perform paying respects to honourable persons, paying attributes to the deserved persons, recognizing gratitude over them, responding to the attributes of gratitude and honouring the teachers. The teachers play an important role in the improvement of the capacity and skills of pupils who will build the modern and developed future nation.

It’s said that teachers are those who imagine the world with education, ease the tension of the world with sympathy and make sacrifices for the sake of the majority.

The teachers are the persons who guide any others to know everything, to have techniques, to possess skills, to be polite, to be clever, to reach the right way and to broaden horizons. Not only teaching education but improving morals are duties of the teachers.

They are the highly noblest benefactors for shaping their pupils with compassion and sympathy regarded as their offspring. The teachers must be qualified with full of qualifications, capacity and techniques. As today is knowledge age, everybody needs to make studies not only on technologies but also on other languages. Teachers must be capable of changing the teaching form from conventional to technology-based learning.

It is necessary to upgrade the curriculum and syllabuses by applying Internet, mobile phones, TV and radio transmission systems. Students on their part need to effectively study and pursue education by applying their opportunities. Teachers, students, parents and the government must cooperate to strive for improvement of the education sector. Everybody faces various kinds of challenges in today’s modern and developed era. It can be seen that the duties of teachers are heavier.

Teachers have to improve themselves to be ideals for the students in addition to serving the duty of teaching. They have to advise with compassion and goodwill to students not to derail from the goals. Five ethics of teacher are teaching techniques, giving advice, not leaving knowledge, preventing dangers and sending pupils to appropriate venue. Those who can carve good and able citizens are also teachers.

At present, as the COVID-19 pandemic is imposing a threat on the lives of the people throughout the world, they all must prevent various dangers and pandemics as the saying which goes to take preventive measures with mindfulness, wisdom and knowledge. It is necessary to give training to students to have skills to create life security and victory free from danger. So, the 2020 World Teachers’ Day expressed the theme “Teachers: leading in crisis, reimagining the future”.

As such, the qualification and capability of the teachers are especially crucial for the emergence of the intelligent and educated new generations. Correct guidance of the teachers is required not for the derailment of pupils from their goals. The Senior General also deeply urged the teachers to continuously strive to promote the Myanmar’s education qualification to meet the international standards and also for the emergence of an abundant number of educated persons with might and main as well as to steer the surging of revitalization for the education sector in accord with the theme of World Teachers’ Day 2021.