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Young Philosophers

Learning To Love Our Teachers

Anushka Bhaskar (18) and Zachary Cerniglia (19) consider the importance of gratitude for education.

“If here before me stand both – my Guru [teacher] and Govind [the Almighty], I’d first prostrate to my Guru, because it is he who revealed to me the Govind!”

Anushka: Today we’re pulling from the pages of my culture to glean some wisdom from an Indian poet. Kabir Das was a great Hindu-Muslim poet of the fifteenth century. Renowned for his couplets, originally written in Urdu, Kabir Das held many ideas about the world that still hold today. One of his most famous rhymes tackles an idea quite relevant to the lives of students: reverence to our teachers.

Zac: Reverence to our teachers might be a foreign concept to some of us.

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