Teachers are not produced in factories or in poultry farms. The would be teachers should be guided and directed from the very start, first of all to help them see whether or not they have the vocation to teach.

I used the word vocation advisedly, and I do have in mind the basic education, grade school and high school. Teaching especially in grade school and high school is not for everyone and the pity is that many students think that if they have been rejected or have failed in their and second choices for a university career, they will say to become a teacher is the last option.

There is nothing sadder than someone who has been many years in the teaching professions, only because there have been no other opportunities. These people are usually and disconnected and a source of problems for the school administrator.

In teaching education, the would-be teacher should told very frankly after a prudent number of observations, whether he or she has a vocation to teaching.

For vocation to teach has only partly to do with the talent to teach.

By: Vivian S. Roxas | Teacher III | Orion Elementary School | Orion, Bataan