October, 5 - International Teacher Day

From the whole heart let me congratulate you with the professional holiday!

Teacher Day is a wonderful occasion to express gratitude and thankfulness to our teachers. Each of us had in our life our Teacher, which we wanted to be like, to be as clever, as responsive and by no means fastidious. The real Teacher is not who only gives knowledge but who forms personality of his/her pupil. His/her very image we carry through our whole life, as the image of the most principal Teacher in life.

Of course, a collective image of a Teacher exists - as a carrier of knowledge, traditions and the highest humanitarian values. One cannot but be happy that in recent years this image has been considerably modernized.

New technologies let Teacher be modern, regularly raising his/her qualification and expanding horizons. More and more Teachers become active participants of network interaction, regular users of electronic educational resources, available in the world net, and introduce innovative methods of teaching.

The most difficult task for Teachers now is transfer of interest to knowledge to children, which could be kept through the whole life. Constantly motivated to receiving knowledge, to learning new, to developing their own skills and personal qualities, our children will more easily specialize to rapidly changing world and, therefore, will be successful in life. The success of each child will become the success of our country, and priceless role in this success will belong to you, dearest Teachers!

The next year for the first time in our history will be dedicated to Teachers. It is a large joy and simultaneously a large responsibility for us. Close public attention to the profession will witness the meaning of your labor for our state.

I am sure that Teacher is not only a profession. Firstly, Teacher is a mission! To get joy from the work with pupils it is necessary to be a creative personality with active life position and huge love for children.

Let each day, spent in school, will bring you joy from communication with children, new knowledge and positive emotions! I wish your pupils to bring you joy of their learning, and graduates - to come more often to their native school and to their favorite Teachers, which is the best award for your priceless labor!

Andrei Fursenko