Happy Teacher's Day 2011

Every year on the 23rd of September, it is Teacher's Day here in Brunei. The date chosen was actually the birthday of the late father of HM Sultan, the Architect of Modern Brunei. If I was not mistaken, Teacher's Day was first celebrated in 1984 or was it 1985?


A friend noted just recently that a number of my friends are in the teaching profession, I prefer to term them as educators... ^_^


What prompted me to blog about this day is coz I remember that I came across a number of Teacher's Day cards that my late brother's students had given him while he was their tutor. Yes, for someone who did not like kids, my brother was a tutor for a number of years... teaching English... and he seemed to have been a well-liked one too...


I remembered one of his ex-students who attended his memorial said to me: "He had always treated me as a friend more than a student"... that's how he was... always treating everyone as an equal... and fairly too... I hope his legacy as a teacher will stay with those whose lives he has touched in however a small way or short amount of time...

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