“After our parents, it is to our teacher that we owe themost” pdf

“After our parents, it is to our teacher that we owe the
most”
Comment on this statement of Guyau: “After our
parents, it is to our teacher that we owe the most”

Generally we bear our parents’ gratefulness in mind but
we often forget our teacher’s benefit. Therefore Guyau
advised us not to forget our duty towards our teachers by
saying: “After our parents it is to our teacher that we owe
the most”.

Our parents’ greatest benefit is to give birth to us. At birth
we are only feeble and weak creatures needing their
support and protection. Our parents have to protect us
from dangers. Our mother takes good care of us everyday.
When we are sick, she anxiously stays up all night beside
our bed. How happy she feels when seeing us getting
better and better. The older we grow up, the harder our
parents have to work to procure us everything: lodging,
food, clothes and school fees.

Not only are our material lives taken care of but also our
mental formation is particularly concerned about as well.
Mother’s love and tenderness always relieves our sorrow
and suffering. She consoles and encourages us in our
failures. With his good experiences, father guides us and
leads us through our first steps in life.

“Father’s benefit is as high as the Thai Son Mountain.
Mother’s gratitude is as inexhaustible as water from a

spring” so runs a Vietnamese adage.

Since our parents spend most of their time taking care of
our material lives, they entrust our spiritual formation to
our teachers. This mental education is so necessary for us
in life. It is the skeleton key which helps us open all doors
and the money which provides us with everything we
need. Our modern world more and more belongs to the
intelligentsia. To reach an expecting situation in society we
have to acquire scientific and technical knowledge and
who are able to provide us with such knowledge if not our
teachers themselves?

Compared with our parents’ benefits, those of our teacher
are more important. They train us mentally, physically and
morally. Devoted teachers, therefore, always wish their
pupils and students would become useful citizens for their
society.

Realizing the teacher’s important and hard task of forming
and training their pupils and students’ personality, after the
Liberty Day our government decided to choose the 20th of
November as the Vietnamese Teachers’ Day. On this day,
at all schools and universities from country to town, the
Teachers’ Day has been celebrated solemnly with a view
to memorizing the teacher’s benefits. This is an
opportunity for all pupils and students to manifest clearly
their gratitude and love towards their beloved teachers.
They sing songs glorifying their teachers’ benefits and
offer flowers to them. And it is on this occasion that

teachers themselves feel more attached to their noble
career and they all try their best to overcome all difficulties
and obstacles in order to fulfill their sacred mission.

It is obvious that our gratitude towards our teachers is
without limits. Let’s try our best to please them and never
make them feel disappointed by our bad behavior.