THEY are assigned the responsibility to mould the nation and keep doing a fantastic job despite the challenges. While there remains appreciation for our teachers investment in us, September is identified to pay special attention. Thank you for all that you do! This year’s theme ‘Quality Education Leadership: Improving Schools from Within’ is befitting of all teachers whose greatest reward is the ability of their students to function effectively and efficiently in building the nation.

Students appreciate that you have risen to the mission to mould minds, guide us into opening new vistas of knowledge, unleash talents and abilities, unlearn negative stereotypes, appreciate the destructive nature of discrimination, and brought to our little world the wider world.

It cannot be an easy task to harness competing interests and energies; bring together diverse talents, cultures and backgrounds in the delivery of universal education. It cannot be easy, yet our teachers have embraced these challenges with effortlessness. This extraordinary group of workers deserves every attention given.

The teacher’s work is never done. When students leave for their respective home and get about their individual life, the teacher takes the students’ collective lives to his/her home, preparing future study material, marking papers and simultaneously responding to duties within the home.
Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation, a calling. This calling is appreciated by minds moulded and the Government of the day who has undertaken the task to improve the education environment. To teachers everywhere, at every level in the education system, thank you for all that you do.

SHARMA SOLOMON