The privilege of being a teacher

WORLD Teachers' Day, October 5, was a reminder of the valuable services that those who undertake the education and training of young minds render to society, and their contribution to individual growth as well as to the transformation of our communities.

- FLORA TECKIE

Teaching is a great responsibility, and at the same time a privilege as it is instrumental in shaping the minds and character of future mothers, fathers, teachers, lawyers, engineers, doctors... of all of us.

Those who undertake the education and training of young minds must see themselves as rendering a most valuable service to their communities, and to society as a whole. Their task is no less than regarding each student as one full of potential and talent, and must be able to help each one to discover this potential and to develop it.

According to the Bahá'í Writings: “The education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and draweth down the grace and favour of the All-Merciful, for education is the indispensable foundation of all human excellence and alloweth man to work his way to the heights of abiding glory”.