Many of us know and remember teachers from our early-day positions as pupils or students, when we believed them to be the all-capable, nearly invincible beings.

At that time we never thought of the challenges they went through or that they could need a helping hand from outside their noble profession. Many of us never really revised that view even as we grew up and became parents of schoolchildren, and we could have erroneously continued to bear the former image.

Teachers are celebrating their Day, which falls tomorrow, under a theme that solicits our support and  pledges quality education in return.

Parents are obviously the main people behind goodwill gestures bestowed on teachers on special days by schoolchildren, many of whom honour their teachers with flowers, cards and gifts.

Teachers have now come out in the open and admitted they value our contributions to education, as they have outlined in the article published in the centre pages today. Therefore, in addition to the occasional symbolic gestures of appreciation we offer them, let all of us also extend our hands in supporting their hard and challenging work because after all, we are the true beneficiaries of their tireless efforts in educating our children.

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