KUCHING: Works Minister Baru Bian yesterday paid tribute to his former teachers for having helped to inspire him mentally and spiritually as a school boy in Long Semadoh, Lawas.
Wishing teachers nationwide a ‘Happy Teachers’ Day 2019’, he urged students to remember their teachers and for teachers to encourage their charges.
“We had good teachers who not only educated our minds but also encouraged our souls,” Baru, who is also Selangau MP and Ba Kelalan assemblyman, said in his latest posting on his Facebook account.
Baru said when he was a young boy, his siblings and him had to walk three days from their home at Long Semadoh to a school in Lawas.
“We had to also carry our own rice for the boarding house. Life was very hard but we persevered,” he said, thankful to the good teachers who taught him.
Meanwhile, a retired headmaster and former Sarawak Teachers’ Union president Michael Ranyed Jackson said he was happy to note that the sacrifices and contributions of teachers were being recognised with May 16 set by the government to honour the teaching profession. — Bernama