HEALING WITHIN
Teaching
is noble. It is entrenched with excellent moral and intellectual principles to
cure ignorance, to refine gross behavior and to shape values according to
divine standards. It, being the noblest profession, shall aim to lay down a
cradle where small seeds of aspirations will grow and produce leaders, heroes,
philanthropies, artists, poets, writers, theorists, priests and all forms of
great men that we can all become whose unique contributions complement one
another to create wonderful human realm.
At this very moment, let everyone
enlarge his/her perceptual field and start to scan around if teaching has
taught human the way he must be. As eyes meet reality, one can perceive that the
realistic promises of noble teaching that once transpired in the past have,
unfortunately, gone to Utopia. Look at facts. Look at the mess that clutters
moral fibers within conscience: government leaders embezzle the public funds; philanthropies
spare almost nothing and acquire decadence; artists display obscenities beyond
acceptable art; poets pervert innocence with their expletives; writers
perpetrate falsehood; theorists seek supremacy above the Supreme Being; and priests
dichotomize common beliefs that destroy unity. There are a lot more to dish out,
but their quantity is intolerable and nauseous; their impacts in every
conscience precipitate particles of insoluble guilt. Feed ourselves more of the
dirt of indecency and we soon get morally sick and live soulless and anarchic.
Who are to blame? Teachers will never
admit it. They never accept even when facts slap them to consciousness or even
innumerable facts slap them twice to extreme wakefulness.
In general, many teachers around the
globe model themselves the wrong way. These are undocumented examples. A teacher
passed his students in exchange with laptop or in gratification of pleasures
from flesh. A teacher spoke ill against another teacher even within the
presence of students. A teacher used bad words even within the hearing of
students. A teacher came in class late and dismissed his class early. A teacher
used students to revenge against another teacher or against a student who acted
against the teacher’s will. A teacher connived with students to manipulate
receipts and prices for anomalies to be hidden and for truths to be altered. A
teacher transacted with business owners who could give them share if he bought
school items from them. A teacher wore clothes worse than porn star’s. A
teacher spoke ill of another’s belief or religion because he always thought
that only his religion is right. A teacher failed students because he hated
them. Again, those are just few of the million examples that justify why teaching
has lost its nobility, and teachers have earned liability, instead, of respect
and gratitude.
Teachers, therefore, must be in full
admission that their precarious teaching has caused moral injuries to
significant number of victims, and consequently, they must be open to
professional and moral repair or healing.
Dear teachers, we might have been
damaged by an injurious, immoral or improper teaching, but we should always
remember to heal the injury within us before we hold the future of the youth,
so that we will not cause the same damage that perpetrate divisions, indecency,
supremacy, falsehood, theft, revenge and the like. It is not yet too late to
renew ourselves. We can still hold the nobility of teaching if we start the
healing from within ourselves. If we are healed from negativities by the time
we teach, we will not fail to produce great men. In the near future, the
continued moral Healing Within every one of us will gradually retrieve teaching
profession back to its noblest. Heal oneself. Heal the world.
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