Teachers’ Day Speech in English for Students and Teachers

Good morning to our respected Principal, my dear teachers and all my friends.

Today is 5 September, and we are celebrating Teachers' Day. On this day, we say a big thank you to the people who teach us every day.

Teachers' Day is the birthday of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. He was a great teacher, and later he became the President of India.

My teachers taught me how to read and write. They taught me to say please and sorry. When I fall in the playground, they pick me up. When I make a mistake, they show me the right way with a smile.

A teacher is like a candle. It burns itself to give light to others.

Dear teachers, we promise to listen to you, work hard and make you proud.

Happy Teachers' Day to all my teachers. Thank you.

Good morning to our respected Principal, dear teachers and my dear friends.

I am a student of Class 7, and I feel lucky to speak on this special morning. Our school looks different today. The classrooms are decorated with paper flowers, the senior students are taking classes, and our teachers are sitting in the front row as our honoured guests.

Why do we celebrate Teachers' Day on 5 September? It is the birthday of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a brilliant philosopher and a much-loved teacher. He was born in 1888 at Tiruttani in Tamil Nadu. He became the first Vice-President of India and then its second President. When his students wanted to celebrate his birthday, he asked them to celebrate it as Teachers' Day instead. Since 1962, India has followed his wish.

Friends, think about it for a moment. Who taught us to hold a pencil? Who stayed back after class to explain a sum for the third time? Who noticed when we were quiet and sad? Our teachers did. They do not only teach English, Maths and Science. They also teach us honesty, patience and kindness.

Every doctor, engineer, farmer and soldier in our country first learnt the alphabet from some patient teacher. That is why a good teacher shapes not just one child but the whole nation.

So let us make a promise today. Let us come to class on time, finish our homework and respect our teachers, not only on 5 September but on every day of the year.

I will end with one simple line: a teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches a heart.

Thank you, and happy Teachers' Day.

Good morning to our respected Principal, Vice-Principal, my dear teachers and fellow students.

Standing on this stage, I remember my first day of school. I was four years old, holding my mother's hand and crying at the gate. A kind teacher knelt down, wiped my tears and told me that a box of crayons was waiting just for me. I walked in with her that day, and in many ways, teachers have been holding my hand ever since. This morning, I am honoured to speak on behalf of all the students of our school.

India celebrates Teachers' Day on the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, one of the finest thinkers of modern India. He taught philosophy in Madras, Mysore and Calcutta, and lectured at Oxford University, where he explained Indian thought to the world. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1954, served as the first Vice-President of India and became its second President in 1962. Yet he always saw himself as a teacher first. When his students asked to celebrate his birthday, he told them it would be a greater honour if the day were kept for all teachers. That simple request gave us the celebration we are enjoying today.

What does a teacher really give us? Knowledge, of course. But facts are now available in books and online at the touch of a button. What a machine cannot give is belief. A good teacher believes in a student before the student believes in himself. She sees a future scientist in the child who asks too many questions, and a future writer in the child who scribbles stories at the back of a notebook.

Teachers also give us values. They teach us to stand in a straight line, to wait for our turn, to own up when we break something and to help a classmate who is struggling. These lessons are not printed in any syllabus, yet they stay with us for life.

We must also remember how hard our teachers work. They check piles of copies late at night, plan lessons on Sundays, prepare us for exams and competitions, and still greet us with a smile at eight in the morning. Many of them give up their own free periods to help weaker students catch up.

So how do we thank them? Cards and flowers are lovely, but the best gift is our behaviour. When we are honest, curious and kind, and when we use what we learn to help others, our teachers feel that their work has borne fruit.

Dear teachers, thank you for your patience on our bad days and your pride on our good ones. Whatever we become in life, a part of it will always be yours.

Thank you, and a very happy Teachers' Day to all.

Good morning, my dear colleagues, members of staff and my dear students.

First of all, I thank our students for this wonderful programme. The songs, the skit and especially the classes taken by our senior students have shown us that you watch us very closely, perhaps more closely than we knew. Some of you copied our habits a little too well, and the whole staff room laughed.

This day reminds us of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a teacher who rose to become the President of India but never stopped thinking of himself as a teacher. He spoke of teaching as one of the most important jobs in any nation. That is a high standard, and it is one we should try to meet every day.

To my colleagues, I want to say thank you. I see how early you arrive and how late you leave. I see you sitting with a child who has lost confidence, calling parents, and finding new ways to explain an old lesson. Our work is not always noticed, and results are not always quick. A seed planted in Class 3 may bloom only twenty years later. But it does bloom.

Teaching is also changing. Our students have questions that we never asked at their age, and they often find information faster than we do. So we too must keep learning. A teacher who stops learning cannot teach a child to love learning.

To my students, I have one request. Today you played the role of teachers. You felt how difficult it is to manage a class of forty restless children for even one period. Remember that feeling tomorrow when you sit at your desks. Respect is not shown only by touching feet or giving cards. It is shown by listening carefully, by asking honest questions and by trying your best.

Let us all, teachers and students together, make our school a place where everyone keeps learning and nobody is left behind.

Thank you, and happy Teachers' Day to all my fellow teachers.