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Gurudakshina to Teacher's Day: How it has Changed

The nation celebrated Teachers Day yet another time today. A day that has been dedicated to teachers in a nation where the tradition of Guru-Sishya is as old as its civilization. 5th September as you all know is the birthday of the second president of the Republic of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , who was a renowned academic philosopher, and it is in his respect that India celebrates ‘Teachers Day ’. Actually India is not the only country that celebrates a day dedicated exclusively to the teachers. In fact, many other countries have been celebrating it long before we did, for example, Albania started the tradition of teacher’s day from March 7, 1887, when the first secular school which taught lessons in Albanian was opened on this day in the small city of Korce . It was in only in 1962, that 5th September was announced as Teachers Day in India. So how do we differentiate the Teacher-Student relationship of India with the others? What we Indians believe is that we are ...