World Teachers’ Day : Prime Minister sends message on October 5

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Thadoe Maha Thray Sithu Thadoe Thiri Thudhamma Min Aung Hlaing sent a message to the World Teachers’ Day which falls on 5 October.

In his message, the Senior General underscored that the country requires many well-versed teachers to produce educated youths with obedience to discipline and morale in accord with the saying: “School is the birthplace of national moral standards”. The Senior General urged teachers to have a high capacity for improvement of the education of students and they have to learn constantly, adding that teachers must create new concepts and ideas.

The message highlighted the important role of teachers to implement the mission of basic education with the aim of enabling all school-age children to complete the basic education, at least KG+9 education, producing knowledge of rationality and analysis, fostering the duty conscientiousness responsibility and accountability for following public ethics, democratic practice and human rights, producing the youths with a wide range of scope, keenness to study and creativity, accepting diversity in individuals and societies with valuing the equality and applying the basic knowledge of peace.

The message disclosed that paying respect to teachers has been flourishing as an act of remembering the gratitude of teachers as Myanmar traditions from ancient times to date, the Senior General added. It’s learnt that the 5th of October 1966 when the International Labour Organization and UNESCO signed the recommendations for the standards of teachers was designated as World Teachers’ Day. The significantly commemorative day has been marked across the world since 1994. This year’s theme “The teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage".