Teachers are the ultimate heroes

I don’t have heroes like Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey and Isaac Newton. A hero must be someone that I relate to and whose impact is huge, there’s nobody greater than a teacher when it comes to education and Character development. They are thus the ultimate heroes.

I have immense respect for government school teachers, particularly those who teach in rural schools. These people deal with children from the most broken families, from the most difficult of circumstances, from the most hopeless of environments. But they do the best that they can, under a visionless education system that sets them up for failure, when they themselves are from difficult circumstances. The teaching profession has long been associated with failures who don’t make it in other fields, but despite the negative stereotype, teachers inspire lots of students to be better than them and achieve greatness. They travel everyday to school either on bicycles or walk, despite governments late pay of peanuts. It is difficult to be inspired in such situations but they continue teaching. They mother and father us. They are our parents when our own mothers and fathers are toiling or in the gardens. They carry us, and it is because of them that today we can be writers, engineers, artists, doctors, sociologists, accountants, historians and everything we have become. You are the stars of the story that our country will one day. My ultimate heroes are the teachers wherever they are, even with the little pay in our COWntry, they still show up and execute their duty.