Of teachers and teaching.
First, OMG! Second, pheeeww! After having either sleepless nights or unpeaceful sleep, it's finally over! No more flipping through the exam papers, no more messing up with numbers and finally, I could put away my red pens and sore hands, eyes and mind at rest, well at least for the time being.
Being a teacher is never easy, like most people would think. We start off very early in the morning, which I think, rectifies why we could go back earlier and have more holidays than those who're working in the private sector (ha-ha). I'm not trying to be vain here, but personally, I think, teachers are real heroes, except that we're not equipped with capes and superpowers, of course. Can normal people handle about an average of 200 students of different backgrounds and behaviours in a day? Can normal people handle 40 to 80 books or scripts to be marked each day, not to mention many more during tests and exams? Can normal people handle planning different lessons for different classes of different levels each day, each week, each month, each year?
This is why I think teachers are internally built tough, regardless the occasional laments and complaints you might hear from us. We face different challenges everyday. Sometimes, things may not go according to our plan and that we need to make decision on the spur of the moment. There will always be students who ask questions endlessly until they're fully satisfied, talk most of the time, skip school, do not hand in their work, are rude to the teachers and the list goes on. Some students fail to see that teachers are human, just like them. When they do not manage to get good results, they will be too busy blaming the teachers to notice our invisible tears and to hear our silent cries. A teacher can go into the class without teaching the students anything and still get the paycheck at the end of the month, but all of us choose to teach, to share everything, anything that we know so that somehow, somewhere, our students will grow up being someone who is useful to himself, his family, race, religion and next, his country.
I know that some may not agree as most of their students' life might not have been that comfortable with the teachers because of many reasons. But frankly speaking, the last thing that a teacher would want is to be your rival. Some may look like very rigid and strict but all they have in mind is to get you moulded into a superb shape and motivate you to become successful! Remember: “Teaching is the profession which makes any other profession”.
To my former teachers, I am here today because of you. Now I'm a teacher myself and I've learnt that teaching is not as easy as it may seem. Life, even. So, I would like to take this opportunity to wish Happy Teachers Day (belated!) to all teachers around the world, whoever and wherever you may be. A BIG THANK YOU for all your dedications and tireless efforts to educate, teach, lead and mould the children of our beloved country. May God bless all of you with the best of health, wealth, and reward you plentifully and bountifully, in this life and Hereafter for all your good deeds. Amin.~
Being a teacher is never easy, like most people would think. We start off very early in the morning, which I think, rectifies why we could go back earlier and have more holidays than those who're working in the private sector (ha-ha). I'm not trying to be vain here, but personally, I think, teachers are real heroes, except that we're not equipped with capes and superpowers, of course. Can normal people handle about an average of 200 students of different backgrounds and behaviours in a day? Can normal people handle 40 to 80 books or scripts to be marked each day, not to mention many more during tests and exams? Can normal people handle planning different lessons for different classes of different levels each day, each week, each month, each year?
This is why I think teachers are internally built tough, regardless the occasional laments and complaints you might hear from us. We face different challenges everyday. Sometimes, things may not go according to our plan and that we need to make decision on the spur of the moment. There will always be students who ask questions endlessly until they're fully satisfied, talk most of the time, skip school, do not hand in their work, are rude to the teachers and the list goes on. Some students fail to see that teachers are human, just like them. When they do not manage to get good results, they will be too busy blaming the teachers to notice our invisible tears and to hear our silent cries. A teacher can go into the class without teaching the students anything and still get the paycheck at the end of the month, but all of us choose to teach, to share everything, anything that we know so that somehow, somewhere, our students will grow up being someone who is useful to himself, his family, race, religion and next, his country.
I know that some may not agree as most of their students' life might not have been that comfortable with the teachers because of many reasons. But frankly speaking, the last thing that a teacher would want is to be your rival. Some may look like very rigid and strict but all they have in mind is to get you moulded into a superb shape and motivate you to become successful! Remember: “Teaching is the profession which makes any other profession”.
To my former teachers, I am here today because of you. Now I'm a teacher myself and I've learnt that teaching is not as easy as it may seem. Life, even. So, I would like to take this opportunity to wish Happy Teachers Day (belated!) to all teachers around the world, whoever and wherever you may be. A BIG THANK YOU for all your dedications and tireless efforts to educate, teach, lead and mould the children of our beloved country. May God bless all of you with the best of health, wealth, and reward you plentifully and bountifully, in this life and Hereafter for all your good deeds. Amin.~
P/s: To those who'd wished me earlier, thank you so much! You know who you are! *winks*
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ucapan je ke, kek ke bunga ke takde ke? ha-ha