"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.
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-
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.
ReplyDeleteJust 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-
I know, this is very disappointing how discouraging teachers can be :( We need to change all of this discrimination !
ReplyDelete-wily