Are you in a lecture today, discovering the world? Are you tramping about in fields or poised over a microscope? Please take a moment on Friday to thank your lecturers and your tutors in person. Why? Because "university teachers can be considered as those who, above all, incite
their students into discovering the world that they do not yet know and
into probing new scientific and cultural realities, imbuing them with
the spirit of the great explorers
"
(
Bara, 2014, p. 747).
World Teachers' Day was established by
UNESCO twenty-one years ago and is celebrated in more than 100 countries on 5 October. Because Queenslanders have Labour Day and school holidays around this time
we celebrate on the last Friday of October each year.
For all students studying education - it's your day too- so share your stories online about great teachers and teaching with the hashtags #worldteachersday and #jcu.
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