{"id":9180,"date":"2015-09-06T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2015-09-06T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T03:48:37","slug":"5th-september-national-teachers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9180","title":{"rendered":"5th September: National Teachers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/president.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/president-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"president\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>5th September is being observed as National Teachers Day. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Significance of Day:<\/strong> This day commemorates the birthday of India\u2019s first Vice President and second President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. This year\u2019s celebration: On occasion of National Teachers Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi releasesed commemorative coins of 125 rupees and 10 rupees denomination in honour of former President S Radhakrishnan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>About Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnayya About this sound listen (help\u00b7info); 5 September 1888 \u2013 17 April 1975) was an Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President of India (1952\u20131962) and the second President of India from 1962 to 1967<\/p>\n<p>One of India&#8217;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 Calcutta (1921\u20131932) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford (1936\u20131952).<\/p>\n<p>His philosophy was grounded in Advaita Vedanta, reinterpreting this tradition for a contemporary understanding. He defended Hinduism against &#8220;uninformed Western criticism&#8221;, contributing to the formation of contemporary Hindu identity.He has been influential in shaping the understanding of Hinduism, in both India and the west, and earned a reputation as a bridge-builder between India and the West.<\/p>\n<p>Radhakrishnan 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 &#8220;teachers should be the best minds in the country&#8221;. Since 1962, his birthday is celebrated in India as Teachers&#8217; Day on 5 September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5th September is being observed as National Teachers Day. Significance of Day: This day commemorates the birthday of India\u2019s first Vice President and second President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. This year\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9180\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[561],"class_list":["post-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-india","tag-5th-september-is-being-observed-as-national-teachers-day","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}