Honouring teachers

October 5, 2021, was World Teacher’s Day, a day to celebrate teachers. Teachers across the world did excellent work in teaching students online during the pandemic. Teachers prepare learners for a dynamic and unknown future. They have a unique skill to discover how people learn at the most fundamental levels, how learning differs across individuals and cultures. They quickly understand the conditions that best foster educational success.

The world will be chaotic, unstructured, dysfunctional, and unmanageable without teachers. Very often, teachers also pick up pieces from children when parents abdicate their parental roles.

Teachers have high levels of intellect, including honed emotional intelligence and the ability to master complex issues quickly and to face the challenges thrown up by a fast-moving and constantly shifting agenda.

FROM MR HANDSEN CHIKOWORE

United Kingdom