COLUMN | Fundile Gade : The teachers we need for the education we want

Referring to the contribution of teachers to society, the old Roman statesman Cicero (about 63 BC) said: “What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?” Rephrased, Cicero asks the question: “What greater or better gift can we offer to the republic than to instruct and teach its youth?”