said discussions where esteemed speakers and commentators grazed the event and where a daughter, a student and a former-student-turned-teacher shared their thoughts on parents, teaching, and teachers. With the gravity of a teacher’s task one would say that people who dedicate their lives to teaching should naturally be highly intellectual men and women of strong character, talent, and who possess enthusiasm and thirst for knowing -- this is not the case however. As we have learned from the conference, some of those who are teaching chose the profession because they didn’t know what career path to take. Others that didn’t have the means to pursue their personal designs, or because they do not possess the knowledge and the skill that would qualify them to their dream job ended up as teachers. The unraveling of reality to the human mind lies in the hands of teachers, so what would become of the world if we entrust it to people who haven’t done well and are dissatisfied with their own lives?People are made better by education. It is great teachers that help man become what they are meant to be. Students when they enter the portals of learning look up on their teachers, they believe that what they are about to learn is the truth. They consciously or subconsciously imitate their teachers in the same manner that a child mirrors his hero’s actions, they together with their parents entrust to them the crucial and most significant part of their lives, their formal education. Thus teachers not only affect them during their stay in the institutions; moreover they shape the way the learner will view life as he ventures in it on his own. Because of this a call for the revamping of the educational system. We live in a materialistic world that has forgotten or has placed the value of integrity, principles, and dreams behind success, fortune, and fame. Teaching does not offer these material gifts so few pursue a c...
