Teaching is one of those professions that enables you to shape the future of your country and the world as a whole by influencing the next generation -- the people who are going to run the country when we're gone.

If you can think of a more influential role in society, then I'd love to hear from you because as far as I'm concerned the messages that we send to our students today are what's going to ultimately shape everything tomorrow.

So, here's the thing. Young people are incredibly easily influenced -- human psychology proves that the thoughts of the young people in our society can be very easily moulded depending on the environment in which they are based. As a teacher, you have an exceptional chance to pass on the message to the next generation.

What I mean by this is that as a teacher you are not only teaching the subject that you are also teaching Outlook.

I can remember my youth and the teaches that had a profound effect on my life. There was this one teacher who has sadly since passed away but he had a massive effect on my life and how I view things.

The reason he was so influential was because he just had an easing energy and passion for the subject that he teach and he proved to me that I could overcome any obstacle that I put my mind to. Here was a guy who managed to take a high school team all the way to the national finals in athletics without any budget whatsoever.

He also organised a massive trip to 24 lucky students to take part in an expedition in the Yukon Territories in northern Canada -- he had no budget to play with, he had to organise us as a group of people to raise money to take part in a trip. I was a vision that he had a couple of years before he eventually make that happen -- everybody said he was crazy at even trying.

His actions and achievements made me realise that if I ever want to achieve something I just need to take one step in front of the other and constantly move forward. Even if things don't go my way, I still have to move forward -- that's exactly what he did, that's exactly how he achieved a mass of things that he achieve -- and that's the message that he passed on to me through his actions.

So as a teacher you are given a platform on which you are a hugely influential person. Eager eyes and ears sit in front of you and wait your message if you can say it in such a compelling and powerful manner than your message will be soaked up like a sponge and you will shape the future of these young bright eyed students.

I think a lot of teachers nowadays are missing the passion that this great teacher of mine hat. I think I must have had around 50 teachers teach me in my lifetime -- I only ever saw this passion in one or maybe two teaches. So I bet you, if you are going to become a teacher think about what message or sending and project that message in a passionate and thought-provoking manner and influence the youth of today so that they make the best of tomorrow when we are long gone.