My loving and respectful greetings to all my fellow teachers on the eve of Teachers’ Day 2022 ! On this day we should not only reverentially commemorate the memory of the great scholar, philosopher, teacher and statesman, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, by trying to emulate the all time greats like him but should also renew our pledge to do our best for our students with all the love, affection, dedication, knowledge and integrity at our command. A teacher should not only know the way and show the way but also walk the way if he/she wants to play a transformative role and touch his/ her students’ life in some lasting positive manner. A teacher should never lose sight of the fact that much more than making his/ her students proficient in the subject he/ she is teaching, he/she has been assigned by his/ her very role the sacred task of producing good, awakened and enlightened human beings who, when they go out into the world after passing out of schools, colleges and universities, are not only enabled to make a decent honest living but also spread their fragrance everywhere and help make this world a better place to live in . After having taught for 42 years and having got abundant love and regard from my students down the years, I can say with confidence and authenticity that teaching is one of the most beautiful professions provided you are committed to your students as you are to your own children, provided you realise the profound sanctity of the teacher-taught relationship in line with the very sacred guru-shishya parampara this great country has held up like a bright burning torch for the world to see, provided you believe deep down that you are not, to use the lingo of today’s market driven world, a mere facilitator and your students not mere clients but are more than parents to them ( imagine defiling the parent- child relationship by calling parents mere facilitators and their children their clients!), provided you realise that God has given your the challenging and enormous but wonderfully unique task of moulding the clay in your hands into aesthetically rich and life-enhancing shapes with fine sensibilities. My heart-felt thanks and gratitude to all my teachers who made me what I am today, my felicitations to all my colleagues, past and present, who have rendered yeoman’s service to this pious profession and to the legion of teachers today who are doing great work and are our hope for tomorrow. Let us all, the teachers of the world, renew our pledge today to live up to the expectations the tag of a teacher arouses in the mind of the society at large and acquit ourselves with integrity and honour in the profound cause of education. Last but not the least, a big warm thanks to our dear students, past and present, for all their love and affection and for giving us a cause worth living and dying for and for enriching our lives beyond measure.
With profound love and regards,
Arun Bhagat
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