In 1994, UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) proclaimed World Teachers' Day, to commemorate the same date from not so long ago, from 1996, when Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers was signed. The role of teachers is crucial and it lives on, giving inviolable motivation to thousands upon thousands pupils worldwide. It is no small matter to be standing before children or teenagers; it requires courage, commitment, but most of all knowledge. It is no small matter to know that man would know little if it weren't for those people who gave him directions since the age of six or seven, depending on when a child started going to school
Author: Name and surname: Emir Jusufbegović
Form: 3A (Social sciences)
English translation: Prof. Edin Plevljaković 

Although widespread and widely used in today's world, a great many people do not quite comprehend the thorough and precise role of teachers in schools, as well as their significance and their effort that they invest in guiding future generations on the right path, through conveying knowledge and skills taught in the classroom, as well as transferring general knowledge displayed in the outer world. Those people, who have taken a tremendous leap in that regard, are not mere workers who evaluate their students' works with grades that precisely mirror their knowledge, but they are also motivators, incentivizers of initiatives toward success and great people who deserve our respect and appreciation.
The very notion of 'teacher' that all know is interpreted in our eyes as a noun denoting a friend, the one who teaches and shows what is done and what is not done. They are our professors and educators before anything else, then close persons who motivate us to soldier on in any kind of situation Some people say, though it is already known, that good friends point out your mistakes and encourage you to correct them. Our professors do it on a daily basis, without reserve, without ill intention. That such examples are present in our Gymnasium is indisputable, where professors draw out attention to our acts and advise us on what to improve on in our own behaviour, and what to keep on doing and how to do so. They are more than friends, more than employees; they are close to us and dear people in every way possible.we find ourselves in.
Without the presence of loyal professors, we would not be having a generation that, thank God, can be trusted. Without their commitment and effort, which must not go unnoticed in students' eyes, we would not have the knowledge that would be used instead of weapons in our near and distant future. Without knowledge, without friendly vibrations and professionalism, no generation would have manners and the reliance in the form of code of conduct, dress code and all-encompassing lifestyle.
In 1994, UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) proclaimed World Teachers' Day, to commemorate the same date from not so long ago, from 1996, when Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers was signed. The role of teachers is crucial and it lives on, giving inviolable motivation to thousands upon thousands pupils worldwide. It is no small matter to be standing before children or teenagers; it requires courage, commitment, but most of all knowledge. It is no small matter to know that man would know little if it weren't for those people who gave him directions since the age of six or seven, depending on when a child started going to school.
After so many years, so much has changed, in terms of technological improvements and teachers' approach to students and vice versa. It cannot be denied that man is a being that strives after learning, to improve and 'find' him/herself in the labyrinth of professors that await him as soon as they walk past the youthful age and teenage freedom. Still, not everything has changed. The love and care teachers have to offer to a vast number of students, chosen in advance already, has not faded since the most important calling for humanity became reality.
To be a good teacher means being a motivator, a smart person, but being a good person first. That is one of the elements which make these people the heroes of our time, as well as the times past.
Who taught us? Who gave us the directions and who is giving us the motivation for work, effort and discipline improvement?
They are no common people, there is much more to them. I myself am proud of them and will be grateful to dear God eternally for giving me an opportunity to live through this period of life and be their pupil.
Dear professors and teachers, may you have a happy World Teachers' Day!