If you are doing well now as a adult you probably have to groups to thank for directly, your parents & your teachers, those that aren't doing well, well,,,,,,,,,,
We'd like to be at a point where everyone can thank both these groups but we don't live in places were the education systems are perfect, parents sometimes can't do it all on their own & the same goes for the teachers. However if we have governments that really valued education instead of just giving lip service to it, teachers might get the recognition & living wages they so rightfully work for & maybe we'd all see a rise across the board in the national levels of our nations. I know here in the US we don't seem to be doing to well when compared to other industrialized nations & we have an educational president in office at the moment & he's been ther for the past 7 yrs working on it too. Surprizingly we're falling further & further behind & the costs of education are going up while the compensation for educational staff along with their benifits are dropping below others as well as tax breaks & funding.
We are dumbing down to where any idiot can hold the most important job in the nation & the see his even dumber son replace him.

Don't thank a teacher for that though, if we had all recieved better education we would not now have an idiot in the highest government office leading us all around (in tailspins) by the nose.

When education gets better & the nation is out of debt & out of war & into homes, schools & jobs then go thank a teacher. Because it'll be their fault for proving the tools it takes for the enlightened to guide us out of the hole we've dug ourselves into.

Teachers & educators shold be on the top of our lists as those to be honored by all societies or was it only the primitive socities that were intellagent enough to recognize this.
These primitive societies all had names for their ones that passed on knowledge, teacher is not one that we hear today but should be.

Barry