Teachers' Day 2024: 10 Inspiring Quotes by Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan for Students!

Teachers have a huge influence on the lives of students. They not only make students receive education or knowledge but also instill principles that make them better individuals. September 5, celebrated as Teachers Day in India commemorates the birth of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. He was India’s second President and its first Vice President. He was also a scholar, philosopher, exemplary teacher, politician and holder of the Bharat Ratna award who committed his life to education and influencing the country’s youth. Radhakrishnan’s contributions to education in India are remarkable.

In 1962, some of his students visited Dr Radhakrishna to wish him a happy birthday. It was then he advised the students to mark the day (September 5) in remembrance of all of India’s teachers. The day is a reminder of the important role that teachers play in nation-building by leading and teaching our country’s brightest minds.

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan received the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian distinction, in 1954. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize 27 times, including 16 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and 11 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Motivational Messages from Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan to Celebrate Teachers’ Day

1. Knowledge gives us power, and love gives us fullness.
2. God lives, feels, and suffers in every one of us, and in the course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty, and love will be revealed in each of us.
3. Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
4. The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
5. Tolerance is the homage which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the infinite.
6. True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
7. Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
8. A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
9. A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science.
10. When we think we know we cease to learn.