Showing posts with label student. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

OK Fine, You’re The Boss!

         Once my favorite teacher said, “Be humble.” And before I left she whispered “Stay humble.” Define humble. The dictionary defines humility as modesty, lacking pretense, not believing that you are superior to others. An additional definition contains: "Having a lowly opinion of oneself; meekness". Well, the word "humility" first struck me in the context of respect, humility in the lives of the students, of teachers, and how the word respect existed between the two. Let me share with you the series of things that has been swarming in the cerebrum of my brain and in the four chambers of my heart.

       Your four years of stay high school has taught you the two sides of humility in partnership with respect.  As a freshie student by that time, adaptation was the hardest thing you’ve to handle. You have had to listen well to the rules and regulations so you won’t be reprimanded. Now, there goes obedience, especially to your teachers who seemed to see you like sheep without a shepherd, and thought that they were good enough to accept the preordained task. Conform to everything they ask you to do and surely you’ll pass to be a sophie.

       Moving on, you’re on your second year in high school and of course you’ve gained profounder intellect and a teenager like you started somehow screeching for your rights, knowing that students have this thing called Magna Carta. Though you didn’t quite well understand the contents of that thing, for you even haven’t read a page of it, others say that it defends your being human and student, so you gradually learned how to furtively disobey some, yes,  some of those do’s and don’ts, thinking that it’s just for the meantime. 

        And as you became a junior student, all I could say was “what happened to you?” Complacently, you answered back - It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!" So that’s it, you’re acting dumb. Wow, isn’t that great? You’re proving that no one could ever stop you, could ever let you do things you do not somewhat like. Still, there’s that big difference between innocent and acting-innocent-turned-into-ignorant. You considered this year of your high school life as the most memorable one. The hell I care was the thing you repeatedly say.