World Teacher’s Day 2024: Today is dedicated to the names of teachers all over the world who are true guides and pave the way by removing the darkness hidden in the lives of their students. Although Teacher's Day is celebrated on 5th September, but today on 5th October, Teacher's Day is celebrated all over the world. Everyone knows when education started, but do you know who was the first professional teacher to provide education to the world. Today, Teacher's Day is celebrated all over the world to spread education. Let us know about World Teachers' Day and the first teacher.
Let us tell you that, on World Teacher's Day, Confucius is considered to be the world's professional teacher who was born in China in 551 BC and taught for the first time in the role of a tutor. It is said that Confucius was born in a poor family in ancient China, where apart from education, he studied music, history and mathematics. Even though education had started becoming available in that era, it had reached only on a limited scale i.e. to the children of the royal family. Regarding this, Confucius wanted that education should reach everyone. So he started teaching as a tutor.
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It is said that schools were first started in Egypt around 3000 BC. Regarding this, it is said that two types of formal schools were developed in Egypt. One for clerical work and the other for training to become a priest. The age of the students coming for education in this school was fixed at 5 years whereas in these schools the students studied till 16-17 years. Formal education had started in Egypt itself. It is said that, apart from Confucius, Greek philosophers consider Aristotle as the first teacher. Who was born in 384 BC. But no update has come out regarding these two.
