por I leave you speeches for teacher’s day that will serve as inspiration to develop it on said date or other special events such as a retirement or the delivery of some distinction.
Teachers inspire and excite, therefore, each word counts to reach the depths of their apprentices and awaken in them a motivation not only in their educational training, but also in their day to day.
Teacher’s Day is a holiday that was born in the 20th century and is widely distributed throughout the world. It does not have a specific date, being this set in commemoration of some illustrious teacher or event of great importance for the education of the country.
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speech for teacher’s day
A vocation of service
On this, our day, it is a great joy to recognize such important work and share the mutual gratitude between students and teachers. Because just as students count on their teachers to encourage and support their learning journey, teachers owe our beautiful vocation to them.
Being a teacher is a vocation of service, we exercise our profession with conviction and passion every day, not only to transmit our knowledge to students, but also to teach how to build it.
Teaching is synonymous with happiness, in addition to doing it in the classroom we do it in an endless number of different activities, because we were born with the vocation of serving the youth of our country, supporting their growth and learning within the framework of a dynamic society.
It is a pleasure for us to materialize our vocation when we express and acquire knowledge in a class with students eager to learn, know and know. Because knowledge is worthless when it is not disseminated and transmitted.
A true teacher always helps with a smile and sincere will, transmits his state of mind to his students and instills not only knowledge in them, but also values; the teacher helps them build a positive image of themselves to foster a healthy self-esteem that stimulates the desire to learn and be a citizen with critical thinking.
Samuel Arango; Colombian writer, defines a good teacher as one who: «is aware that the best and almost only worthwhile peace process is to educate.»
You are not a teacher to live, you live to be a teacher
Only he who lives for others can be called a teacher. The great historian and novelist Henry Adams says: “A teacher works for eternity. No one can predict where his influence will end.» If it weren’t for the teachers, I would not have been a teacher, nor would any of you be an engineer, nurse, scientist or lawyer, but above all, few would recognize the value of knowledge and good values in a society.
A teacher is a being who gives, and he never tires of giving, because he lives for it. As teachers we can educate in two ways: teaching to earn a living, or teaching to live; both aspects are essential for the development of the citizens of this society.
In the times in which we live, we need to train people with science, technology, culture, values and criteria of the current context. People who understand that more important than knowledge itself is knowing how to feed it, correct it, apply it in decision-making, and above all transmit it in order to remain nourished by the feedback of knowledge.
Today, here, before you, gathered together to celebrate a day as special as Teacher’s Day, I want to recall the accurate and current words of the great epistemologist Jean Piaget:
“The main goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; Men who are creative, inventors and discoverers. The second goal of education is to form minds that are critical, that can verify and not accept everything that is offered.
Vocation to give and give birth to the light of knowledge
Celebrating Teacher’s Day is a way to recognize and honor the beautiful work of educating; This way of life leaves a mark on each person who lives it, both practicing the profession and dedicating their attention as a student.
I want to take this moment, this space, and your attention to thank you for the gift of our vocation as teachers, a vocation to give and give birth to the light of knowing, discovering, creating, teaching, recognizing and admiring yourself.
You are a teacher for only one reason, because you believe in the future by fighting for the present through the training of people at whatever level we perform.
You are not a teacher because you work to live, we are because we believe in the human being, in society, and above all in education as the only tool to transform the world.
Being a teacher goes beyond a title, a position; Being a teacher is the product of choosing a way of life that is assumed from the daily work of teaching and learning by teaching. To empathize with the people who make our work possible, to feel and transmit the hope and joy of doing what we choose to be.
And lastly, although remuneration matters, it is not what is worth the most, because we are teachers because there is no greater satisfaction than the result of our work, nor more valuable remuneration than the recognition they give us, that act of recognition is the best tribute that a teacher can hope for. Thank you so much
One of the most significant professions of humanity
The words teacher, teacher, educator and teacher are cause for reflection, explained and differentiated from each other. I have heard and read them as synonyms one of the other, however, I agree with the historian Jaime Álvarez Llanos, who places each word on a different step in the context of the teaching task.
For Álvarez Llanos, a teacher is one who fulfills a professional role, a teacher is one who performs a pedagogical role, on the other hand, the educator fulfills a social duty, and finally, a teacher is one who gives a human dimension to teaching and makes it a His way of life.
With this we can say that not every teacher, teacher or educator manages to be a teacher. Boasting aside but also modesty, I am certain that all those honored today are true masters, including me.
But it is not because we are the best at what we do, nor the most knowledgeable and certified, but because we all put our hearts into what we do. With passion we manage to achieve the fruit of transmitting our knowledge, which is receiving much more knowledge back, and awakening the desire to learn, discover and create every day in those who give meaning to our occupation: our students.
Albert Einstein said: «The most important art of a teacher is knowing how to awaken in his students the joy of knowing and creating.»
What we teachers do goes beyond our title, it consists of awakening joy for knowledge, and when we achieve it, our joy is greater, with this we motivate ourselves to always continue doing what we do.
Parents are the first teachers
During our childhood, parents are the first teachers and the house our first school, they are the example to follow that we have, the ones who instill the first knowledge.
Training at home is the foundation of any person and many times, we are not aware of the responsibility involved in educating our children at home, promoting the values of respect, courtesy, generosity, among others, to pave the way. of knowledge by the time they enter school.
Education at all levels, and especially in the initial stage, requires joint work between teachers and family to contribute to the comprehensive development of the child, that little citizen in training who needs motivation in all aspects of his life to discover the world. that surrounds you
It is at this moment that the figure of the teacher plays a leading role. Who does not remember their first teacher, the kindergarten teacher?
Whether for better or for worse, the memories and teachings of those teachers who marked our lives always come to mind.
importance of education
There are many philosophers and experts who assure that the wealth of a country is not measured in economic indices or in the technological advances it develops. The true wealth of a society is in the way it educates its members.
Guaranteeing free, free and quality education should be a priority for any government, but for this, it must invest in the training of educators with a vocation, human quality and love for teaching, while being remunerated in the most fair and proportional to the great work they do.
The good teacher knows that he is not the absolute owner of the truth, nor that he has all the knowledge.
On the contrary, he is aware that the learning process does not expire and each day is a new opportunity to enrich his knowledge, especially in the feedback process with his students, where the teacher has a lot to learn from communicating with them.
It is through this dialogue that the teacher realizes that educating his students is actually planting a seed that is reaped in society for its progress.
In addition to teaching grammar, mathematics and science, teachers must train honest citizens with ethics and morals, reinforce the values that the person acquires in the family nucleus.
youAll the knowledge acquired during educational training should contribute to the formation of critical people, who respect themselves and everyone around them, granting the importance that each person has regardless of their academic background.
Beyond the paradigms
In education, models and paradigms have been developed to adapt to the characteristics of the students. However, the great task of teaching transcends the psychological limits and conceptions of education.
Each teacher must enhance the abilities and skills of their students, understanding the principle that each individual is totally different and has their own qualities and characteristics.
Children, young people and students in general should feel that their teacher values their skills, without comparing them with the rest of their classmates, in order to contribute to the integral development of the person by allowing their adaptation to the environment, promoting socialization and giving them a role. protagonist in their educational formation.
The teacher must make his students active agents in learning, rather than a group of passive people who are only there to listen and copy classes.
Said in this way, the work of the educator never ends, with his example inside and outside the school he continues to be the role model for his students, a life reference for all those to whom he imparted his knowledge.
That is why from our trenches, whatever it may be, we should never belittle the work of a teacher, the one who has more children than he conceived, who worries about the well-being of his students on a daily basis, who knows when something is wrong. with them, and…