?Teacher’s Day’ in Laos

September is the month when teachers in India suddenly become important. Students who have spent the rest of the year negotiating deadlines, ignoring homework and occasionally pretending not to hear their teacher will, on September 5, discover an extraordinary affection for the profession. Flowers appear, greeting cards change hands, messages of gratitude arrive and classrooms acquire an unusual air of celebration. Teacher’s Day in India, marks the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher, scholar and India’s second President. It is a day when teachers are reminded, sometimes quite loudly, that they are valued. Former st…