Teacher’s Day in Different Countries

Teacher’s day is not the patent of China, many countries celebrate it by different ways to pay homage. But the differences are the name, history and time. Students expressing gratitude to the teacher’s manners are various also.

September 10th, 2010 is the twenty-sixth teacher’s day in China, This is an expressed honor and respect for teachers, students and teachers affectionate day, but already go bad by intensified the gift of some deterioration. Let us leave aside the utilitarian heart to express our best wishes for our teachers, to agitate and appreciation expression of gratitude as a gift for our honor and respect teachers.

The situation is total different in Japan. Once, a teacher has been assigned to the district in Osaka, Japan Ikeda, as a primary school teacher to do academic exchanges about his experience. One day after work, another teacher invited her to his house. they took the metro and because the rush hour, the subway is overcrowded, already. After a half minute, an old men stood up and nodded to her, she was flattered, suddenly. Humility for a long time, the old man still kept to said “sit down” “sit down”. She was afraid of the old man misunderstood her, so she accepted it. Leaving the metro, her colleague pointed out to her clothes by hand on the badge, “because you are a teacher, he would only give you the seat”.

Japan is not only installed teacher’s special seat on the subway, teacher shops in the street also. Teachers do not have to queue to buy train tickets, even receiving government rations of articles is the priority of teachers …

September 5th is India teacher’s day, which is celebrated as a mark of tribute to the contribution made by teachers to the society. 5th September is the birthday of a great teacher Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, who was a staunch believer of education, and was the well-known diplomat, scholar, president of India and above all a teacher. In India, it is not called the holiday but celebrating. On that day, in order to show their honor, some schools make a big decision that the teaching tasks are distributed to senior students to pack down, they should have class for junior students to experienced the hard work. The school will be givce the score according to their performance and indentified the best student “teacher”.

While teachers work in the UK was respected, but has been long time in this country, it has no specific day to celebrate. In 2000, as the effort of British Association and Chinese school, the third Sunday in October in each yeah be the Chinese teacher’s day. In that day, the UK on behalf of the Chinese school teachers held a grand gathering in London. Teachers will conduct a grand, Chinese Ambassador in Britain, and London community leaders on behalf of Consul General also to be congratulated.

In a word, teacher in our heart is nobility and great, their hard-working, selfness contribution was respected and honored.

Selina