More than half of my life I spent it dealing with a group of people who called themselves teachers. Back when I was a little boy way before I enter the pre-school around the late 80’s and early 90’s; kindergarten of course; I always have this skeptical mind about them due to the fact that most of the Malay dramas back on those time always shown the image of a teacher; despite they are male or female teacher; who would be mean to the students and punish them by caning them by giving a “good” whooping until you could hear the sound when they move the cane to strike their student.
Back on those time, people; both parents and students; really gave their respect towards the teachers because they still have the moral value of respecting the people who actually guided and gave knowledge to us.
Unfortunately, those entire moral values of respecting and dreaded towards the teacher are keeping decreasing year by year. I’m not blaming both parents and students wholly due to the fact their knowledge of their own rights as parents whom protecting their children are amusingly increase in a large percentage thanks to the information from the internet and the massive action taking by certain parents whom confide against the school caning policy. From there, parents who always look up upon teachers will eventually leave just a bit of moral value according to time.
We also not are forgetting the media which always giving headlines to certain cases of students taking legal action to both school and teachers. Sometimes they even drag the Education Department into the issue. Eventually, large number of students will know about it and it will induce them to think and flashback all the action that the teachers gave them as a punishment as an “I-Could-Counter-Back” strategy.
Personally for me, I’m a person who is still keeping the moral value of a student towards his teachers. We must admit that without them, we would not be as we are today. Yes, may likely you have your own teacher whom you dislike or adore but then, their focus towards us still not change; to be our host and us as the mutual parasite who sucked all the information that has been given must give back to them our self respect towards them as a method of gratitude.
They are not expecting something from us except for success and someday will have a good name which eventually makes them feel really proud indeed.
I do admit that I also have the teaching life as my career in my job list because it is fun and challenging at the same time to control a big number of students, memorizing their name, check your exercise books one by one etc.
Remember this, for a teacher he or she could have thousands of students in one time but for us it is only one teacher in our heart and will forever call them TEACHER.
Happy Teacher’s Day.
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