Dear friends!
I am sincerely pleased to congratulate all educators of our vast country on Teacher's Day and to thank you for your challenging, highly responsible, and noble work.
You devote your strength and energy to a most important mission, one that is, in the literal sense, directed towards the future. You do everything so that children, adolescents, your students, gain the knowledge necessary in the modern world and a solid foundation of values. And thus, can feel confident in adult life, achieve successes that will define their own destiny and the destiny of our country.
Your work enjoys well-deserved respect in society and, perhaps like no other, requires patience, wisdom, generosity of spirit, and the ability to see in every child the spark of their talents and abilities, to help them understand themselves and the world around them.
Today's holiday evokes special, the warmest feelings in millions of our compatriots. It is dear and significant for those who are currently studying in schools, colleges, technical schools, and universities. For their parents, loved ones, for all Russian families. For adults who, years later, remember their teachers with gratitude – and I am sure, that is the absolute majority in our country.
We are proud of our own, very strong pedagogical school, its innovative ideas, and unique developments. After all, it is high-quality education, including basic, school education, that is the guarantee that our country can solve the most complex tasks and achieve scientific and technological leadership.
It is important for us to preserve the continuity of pedagogical schools, so that teachers can learn from their colleagues, and so that strong, interesting methodologies gain the widest distribution and are accessible everywhere, across the entire territory of the country.
And here, professional skill competitions play a huge role, the results of the main one – the All-Russian competition – being traditionally announced around Teacher's Day.
We truly have many talented, wonderful, genuinely passionate teachers, whose example inspires both colleagues and the children, the school students who are just choosing a profession. This means the best traditions of domestic pedagogy will undoubtedly be continued.
I want to once again congratulate you on Teacher's Day, wish you and your loved ones health and well-being, and wish your students achievements that we will all be proud of.
Happy holiday to you!