A special commemoration to celebrate teachers and teaching for The World Teachers' Day. The number of teachers world-wide exceeds 55 million (nearly 1% of the global population), serving over 1 billion students. They hold in their hands the future of our children, our prosperity, even of our planet.
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- Quotations - Stamps | About The World Teachers' Day
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Quotations
Each presented in three different languages
- "In the schoolhouse, we have the heart of the whole society."
~ Henry Golden - "The schools of the country are its future in miniature."
~ Tehyi Hsieh - "The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad [...] I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow."
~ Ivan Welton Fitzwater - "What's done to children, they will do to society."
~ Karl Menninger - "To teach is to learn."
~ Chinese proverb - "To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner."
~ Søren Kierkegaard - "To teach is to learn twice."
~ Joseph Joubert - "Teaching is the royal road to learning."
~ Jessamyn West - "Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself."
~ Tryon Adams