Saturday 5 September 2015

Happy Teacher's day

 Shri Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first  vice president of India  (1952–1962) and the second President of India from 1962 to 1967.One of India's most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy,his academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Culcutta (1921–1932) and  Spalding professor of Eastern Religion and Ehtics  at University of Oxford was awarded several high awards during his life, including a knighthood in 1931, the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India, in 1954, and honorary membership of the British Royal Order of Merit in 1963. Radhakrishnan believed that "teachers should be the best minds in the country". Since 1962, his birthday is celebrated in India as Teacher's Day on 5 September


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