Thursday, October 20, 2011

You forgot, so I'm reminding



"I'm a lawyer. And what are you ?", a young lawyer boastfully introduces himself.

"Ohh. I'm a teacher !", a teacher enthusiastically answered the question.

"Why ?!", confused and weird faces are expressed to teacher.

I'm sure that MOST of the teacher have encountered this situation because teaching is not as fancy as other professions. Education is not as appealing as other courses. Want to know why ? Because the mindset of our society that molds and judge people easily. Only Professors, Lawyers, Scientists, Doctors and Engineers are the "successful" ones. What about teachers ? They have forgotten their roots that TEACHERS are the ones teaching, educating and producing the so called "successful professionals". But the society and the Professionals are caught up with the saying of "those who can do,and those who can't teach". Think of it this way, if you're teachers CAN'T then where are YOU now ? You see, without the success of teachers or the knowledge teachers share with their students, they will not become the person the are today. The world would not be as developed as today without teachers.


Most of us, forgets what our teacher has contributed to us, and the society the minute they stepped out of school. And there are many people who questioned teachers' capabilities. They look at teachers bluntly especially after becoming successful beings. Their ignorance makes the new generations, to not pursue in teaching. We now need to ignite the spirit of how teachers and teaching contribute a huge impact on the world and how teaching is a noble job. We need to produce a new generation that do not judge other professions easily. The new teachers need to show the importance, the compassion and be inspiring for their students so that their students would say "When I grow up, I want to be just like you. A teacher !". The preservice teachers must not give up into molding a new aspect of teaching and learning.

Just in case some doubt on teachers' capability of doing to the new generations. Or some forget what teachers are made of or how big is their impact. Here's a video :



-Wily-

2 comments:

  1. I remember when my physics teacher who was once an engineer asked me this: "What do you want to study when you graduate from high school?" "I want to be a teacher." I replied. She then said this, "Why do you want to be a teacher? Why don't you want to be something better like a doctor, lawyer or an engineer?" This is how I replied her, "What makes them "better"? Don't these engineers, doctors or lawyers need teachers to make them to be successful?" She kept quiet for 15 seconds doing her own things and I walked away.

    Just to show you that there are teachers like that out there. And if it's not up to us to change their mindset or show that we're different. Who will?

    -potatoes-

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  2. I know, this is very disappointing how discouraging teachers can be :( We need to change all of this discrimination !

    -wily

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