Honouring our teachers
“I have come
to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as
there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” (John Steinbeck)
“The
National Teaching Awards scheme is one of the ways in which the Department of
Basic Education acknowledges and encourages dedicated and caring teachers
in their efforts to develop each learner as a citizen of a democratic,
non-racial and non-sexist South Africa”- Department of Basic Education.
On
the 16th of February the Department of basic education hosted an
award ceremony at the Sandton Convention center, in honour of those educators making
a contribution to South Africa’s young minds.
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own” – Nikos Kazantzakis.
