# A Teacher’s Role: Passing On Knowledge and Cultural Heritage

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2107945745609572795
- Source account: [@MAnthoParis](https://x.com/MAnthoParis)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:49
- Published: 2026-10-08
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/fr/la-mission-du-professeur-transmettre-le-savoir-et-l-h%C3%A9ritage-culturel.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage) Above all, this young man isn't going to explain to me what the mission of a teacher is. A teacher's mission is to pass on the legacy of past centuries and the legacy of great works, to introduce you to it and, precisely, enable you to know, to love and carry on the legacy our ancestors began.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage?t=22) So please, that's my only legitimacy. It's because I do possess knowledge, and that you are not. You are a pupil, and we are not on equal terms.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage?t=33) Excuse me, I don't strut in front of you.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage?t=35) But why do you have colleagues who agree with me?

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage?t=38) Why do you have colleagues who agree with me?

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage?t=40) Are they not legitimate? They dismantled the school, they dismantled the educational institution precisely because— You, you have helped the national institution.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EIukG1fXaMTD/en/a-teacher-s-role-passing-on-knowledge-and-cultural-heritage?t=47) Both