“We come together, our hearts united, we are the future, we stand our hopes and dreams, we believe it, we’re moving forward, the best is yet to come, the best is yet to come” from the song We Believe by Planetshakers.
Each person has something that he or she believes that serves as his or her declaration in life. Having something to believe for impacts ones perspective in life. Goals, objectives, and dreams oftentimes associated with what we believe. As a teacher, we often forget that this profession is the noblest of all profession or sometimes it’s over familiarity of the nobleness of the profession itself that makes us to forget that it’s really the noblest of all profession because of working more than 8 hours having extension of work at home and during weekends and doing works beyond teaching like home visitation, act as second parent of students and finishing other paper works demanded by the DepEd office. Because we see work as work what we see is students need to learn the many concepts in different subjects, the many do’s and dont’s, a lot of rules and regulations only to stress out oneself because we can always find students that are headache of teachers, students that cannot catch up quickly to the lesson and those who cannot comply to the demand of the subject matter. In the end, the result will be grumbles about what extra activities to give, how to give extra points to the student, how to pass him/her with extra rants on what kind of student that particular student is.
What if we believe for greater things about students? We are not dictators of the future of the students nor they can be a judge to their own self. Before Lebron James became one of the best PBA players, before Steve Jobs became the greatest developer of Apple and even before Albert Einstein became the greatest scientist they were all somebody each one of us couldn’t expect which in our term today “nobody”. But they became somebody all of us know today because they believe on themselves for something greater or maybe somebody believed on them. Somebody helped them realized their maximum potential without stressing themselves to the present character or behavior they were seeing to these people but keeping in mind the goal which is the maximum potential of the person and the realization of the dream. What if every teacher in the Philippines believe that every student will be something greater someday that he/she should not force to but keep on inspiring to, helping to develop them and help them realize all the great things they can do then possibly it can make an impact on their lives. Not only these students will become great teacher, engineer, doctor, lawyer, businessman but the next president of the Philippines, the next governor, congressman, mayor will come from this millennial generation. Each one of us needs to keep in mind that everyone is a “work in progress” that’s why the best is yet to come. We need to stand together to help this generation realize their hopes and dreams. Instead of focusing on passing and failing them, we can shift our focus on the brighter future that by doing so we can create a change not only in our educational system but make a change in the lives of every individual as change starts in the mind before it can actually be manifested outside.
By: Ms. Ana Rosette S. Garcia | Jose Rizal Institute
