Editorial

Thank you teachers!

When as students, greeting our teachers in school and off-campuses is a form of brief interaction to show respect to the so-called second parents of pupils and higher level students and to symbolize the presence of each other. We acknowledge the presence of each other even when the verbal encounters sound routine. This communication goes on after the educational course when incidentally we meet our mentors off-campus.

Last October 5 was World Teachers’ Day, the designated date to salute and give praise to our teachers from whom we have learned the basic rudiments through education. How many of us could still recall the names of our teachers since the elementary years until we exited the schools? Of course, there are favorite ones which the beholder could only know or endear for himself or herself… We call this the much “significant others.”

Let’s see. Have you hated a teacher for flanking you in an academic subject, especially if one deserves a failing mark? Don’t you know that giving a failing mark to a student is one of the depressing moments of a teacher? A mentor is all too happy if all students in a section make it through the examinations. But when there are many flankers, a teacher would ask himself/herself the question: “Where did I go wrong?” This is one question to ponder. Generally, it is a student who gives himself/herself the academic mark since accomplishment or achievements is the exercise of an individual with the teachers acting as resource persons or academic providers in the pursuit of education, assuming that the teachers are very qualified educators… Precisely, teachers have to acquire professional credentials to qualify one as an educator or teacher and these people continue updating their know-how or careers through series of trainings in the course of teaching chores. Professionals continue to update or upgrade their careers to be abreast with changing developments and trending.

In a way, teacher(s) have contributed to our growth toward professionalism. In our life cycle, teachers have blended with our lives as they coach us on the rigidities of academics. Yes, we learn from them as they, too, have learned from their own mentors. One becomes a school teacher because of another mentor before him or her. One becomes a respectable professional because of the coach… the teacher.

Tese people have contributed something in our lives. When we talk about them in a conversation with classmates or friends later in life, it is reminiscing those moments of togetherness in the campus. It means we have cherished our encounters with these teachers. Who knows when one of your child would enroll in a collegiate education course. Welcome to the club.

To be a teacher is one multiple role playing. Take it from them.

Thank you teacher(s) for being part of our lives. Thank you for being our second parents. Thank you for giving us counsel. Thank you for being with us in all those academic moments in time. We give you our salutation.