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You love your teachers
By Dean Beau Lozarie
Student, Agusan National High School
Butuan City, Agusan del Norte
Teachers. They either made your school life easy or turned it into a grueling experience. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Love them or hate them. You love them anyway. I know you do. Admit it. I know we all love our teachers but we just can’t seem to express our appreciation for them that well.
Our teachers arrive in school before anyone else does. You come to school early in the morning and she'd be there, ready for the long day ahead, wearing a big smile.
Our teachers can be the strictest persons on the planet. But they don’t have it easy either. What they do for their students is only half of their work load. On top of their teaching duties are paper work, reports, and other deliverables which they need to complete to strictly comply with the school administration’s rules.
Our teachers are patient and forgiving as a saint. How many times have we broken their rules or did not meet their deadlines yet we still get an extension, a chance to right our wrong?
Teaching is one of the lowest-paid professions in the Philippines (and even overseas), a true understatement on the importance of educators. Without teachers, we wouldn't have doctors or lawyers or businessmen or leaders today. Without teachers, we wouldn’t be able to turn our 75% mark into a respectable 83% grade. Without teachers, our dreams and aspirations might be harder to reach.
You may not see it, but your teachers love you. Think about it this way: your teachers could have chosen a different course, a different career to pursue back when they were just about to enter college. There isn't any money in teaching. There are but a few benefits. But your teachers chose to teach. That’s because they love to teach and they care about the young generations’ future.
Aristotle paid extraordinary homage to teachers when he said, "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well." Truly, our educators are today's unsung heroes. Or great teachers mold our society and forever influence our lives.
To tell you the truth, I do not know the exact date for Teachers’ Day. That’s okay because I think we should honor our teachers every single day. I love my teachers. Do you?
Mabuhay ang mga guro!
(Published 03 November 2008, Smart Communications, Inc.)
