My little world expands when learning and virtues penetrate my humanity. Teachers continue to touch my inner world and they give meaning to my existence. Yes, teachers are just humans but they resemble the real heroes in what they can do to their students. Like heroes who give their lives to their country or people unselfishly, my teachers unselfishly share their knowledge. They are the heroes who save me from ignorance as experienced by those who had no chance to have good teachers in comparison.
Years may have passed and yet those little skills keep on building up until I realize that I have become a teacher to others. In teaching I also learn and enjoy. Thus, I believe teaching must be a happy profession. Every minute I spend in a classroom seems an eternal time that I will treasure because I believe that learning is simply limitless. Of course, students also learn outside the classroom but the influence of the teachers are still there.
My teachers are my supermen and wonderwomen. They inspire me to enhance my talents and abilities. On a lighter note, I learned to dance and sing and even swim along the way. My communication and interpersonal prowess were honed to perfection with the mastery of academic subjects like psychology, economics, management, accounting, finance, marketing and general education subjects.
My teacher is my hero because he/she simply cannot let the day pass without leaving a deep sense of responsibility. I would like to believe that responsibility is one of the highest virtues which will help me to know the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I remember my parents having to convince me first that my teacher is wrong when something is at issue about a matter I learned in school. I would like to believe that teachers occupy the position not everybody else can occupy in molding people together with the latter's parents.
Many years from now, I will look back to my school days and reminisce those days of tears and joy, of love and hate, of assignments and business day activities, and most of all, the faces of my serious and ever caring professors. Indeed, teachers are worth remembering. I can still remember my teachers since elementary - the gestures of their hands, the smiles written on their faces, and the yell of care. I have yet to know if there's a greater profession than being a teacher. There will be no doctors, lawyers, managers and engineers if there are no teachers behind them. Teachers tap my back to be better and to bring out the best in me.
A time will come when I have to wave goodbye to my teachers. Yet, the knowledge and wisdom that they have implanted to me will not be wasted away but will continue to grow. By that time I would be functioning in many ways like a teacher because of the need to share knowledge and wisdom to everyone. Indeed, to be a teacher must be a great calling.
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