06 October, 2006

Happy Teacher's Day!

Today is the Teacher's Day in Estonia (it's a kind of moving holiday here -> end of the first week in October).

For the school it usually means that the 12th-graders are appointed the leaders of the school and they do all sorts of crazy things like ask teachers to fold a paper plane and throw it out of the window or test their drawing skills etc. etc.
I've been a pig-tailed pupil drawing with crayons on a Teacher's Day in my previous workplace making hell of the student-teacher's life :)

By the way, the Teacher's Day is not on the same day in every country (if you didn't know that yet)!
In Turkey it is November 24th;
In Malaysia May 16th;
In India September 5th
and they spend it, like Estonians do, on a working day.
In some countries the Teacher's Day is considered the national holiday.
In some countries the Teacher's Day is celebrated to commemorate somebody's death or birth - in China the birthday of Confucius (28.09) or in Czech Republic the birthday of Jan Ámos Komenský (28.03) also known as Comenius.

1 comment:

Alejandra Díaz said...

Hi Tea! In Argentina, Teacher's Day is celebrated on September 11 to commemorate the birth of Domingo Sarmiento, a think-tank who introduced the whole education system in my country.