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On September 5, students across the country celebrate Teachers’ Day to pay tribute to their teachers. It is one month ahead of the world. International Teacher’s Day falls on 5 October. UNESCO declared on 5 October World Teacher’s Day to celebrate the recommendations related to the status of teachers in collaboration with the International Labor Organization.
Then why Indian Teacher’s Day is celebrated differently? This day is related to the first Vice President of independent India. Let’s know the history and significance of this day in #ClasseswithNews18 today.
What is the relation between Teacher’s Day and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
India’s Teacher’s Day marks the birthday of former Vice President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. A noted scholar, philosopher and recipient of the Bharat Ratna, Dr. Radhakrishnan is the first Vice President and second President of independent India (1962). Born on September 5, 1888.
Radhakrishnan served as a professor in various colleges and universities, including the Presidency College, Chennai and the University of Calcutta. As his teaching career progressed, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra Pradesh University, Delhi University and Banaras Hindu University. In April 1909, Radhakrishnan was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at Madras Presidency College. In 1918, he joined the Maharaja’s College, Mysore.
He also received an offer from the University of Oxford in 1936 to teach Eastern religion and ethics. Radhakrishnan accepted the offer and taught there for several years before joining politics. In 1939, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
The end product of education should be a free creative individual, who can fight against historical conditions and adversities of nature – Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
In addition to teaching, he represented India In the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 1946 to 1952. He was also appointed India’s ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he served from 1949 to 1952.
In 1952 he was appointed as the first Vice President of India. After 10 years in office, he became the second President of India in 1962.
In 1962, when he took over as the then President Rajendra Prasad, his students approached him, requesting him to allow him to celebrate his birthday. He asked them to celebrate it as Teacher’s Day instead of allowing them to do so. He replied to his students, “Instead of observing my birthday carefully, it would be my privilege to celebrate 5th of September as Teacher’s Day.”
Since then every year Teacher’s Day is celebrated in honor of all the teachers and professors on their birth anniversary. Radhakrishnan was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, in 1954. Besides, he was Nominated 27 times for the Nobel Prize,
Sarvepalli studied at Voorhees College in Vellore and later joined Madras Christian College at the age of 17. In 1906, he completed his master’s degree in philosophy. He then started his career as a professor.
Do you know that he was knighted in 1931 and has since been addressed as Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan? But that was before India became independent. After independence in 1947, he came to be known as Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In 1936, he was named Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at the University of Oxford and was elected as a Fellow of All Souls College.
A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science – Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Top books written by Radhakrishnan include A Source Book in Indian Philosophy, The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought, The Hindu View of Life, Eastern Religions, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore and Western Thought, Faith Renewed. He died on April 17, 1975 at the age of 86.
While globally, Teacher’s Day is celebrated on 5 October, in India we celebrate it on 5 September since 1962. World Teachers’ Day marks the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 recommendations regarding the status, teaching practices and rights of teachers. UNESCO introduced World Teachers’ Day in 1994 to draw attention to the contributions and achievements of teachers as well as the concerns and objectives of teachers in education.
The date 5 October was chosen as the International Day to Honor Teachers because a special intergovernmental meeting on that date in 1966 accepted UNESCO’s recommendation on the status of teachers.
1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Teachers, which sets standards for teachers’ rights and responsibilities, and sets standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions does. World Teachers Day is co-organized in partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO), UNICEF and education International (EI). Last year’s World Teacher’s Day theme was ‘Teachers at the Heart of Teacher Recovery’ to recognize teachers for their efforts to continue teaching even amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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