The semester is ending and the 220 students who enrolled in my class will face new subjects and new professors next semester.
The grief of a teacher is when he felt he contributed nothing to the advancement of knowledge and to see his students to be potential liabilities of our society. When this is felt and seen the agony is unexplainable.
The joy however of hearing and seeing my previous students working in banks, corporations or setting up their own businesses gave me enough fulfillment that I will bring up to my last breath.
The grief and the joy are intertwined and to prevent the former to rule my world, I gave myself the following rubrics to ask myself at the end of every semester if I am effective:
1. Did I develop the skills needed by my students in relation to the subject I taught?
2. Did I contributed in the development of their character particularly in inculcating to
them that they should give preferential treatment to the poor?
3. Did I encourage them to explore the future career that they will face?
If I am satisfied with the answers these fuel me to go on despite the cruelty of this world.
we do hope that in the next semester you'll still be our professor in Management, because truly you are not just an exceptional professor but also an inspiration to admire by many students!
ReplyDeleteSana kaw parin p0 ang prof nmin next sem...
ReplyDeleteMaraming salamat p0 sir...ingat p0 kau lagi...
Being a college student, it's very rare to see a professor giving a great deal of attention and concern to his students. We admire your teachings in math; making simple steps from complicated solutions without spoon feeding us, which gives us the privileged to learn by ourselves. Like what Einstein had quoted "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction". We also hope that you'll still be our professor in, well, any subject. We know we'll be learning a lot from you. Thank you Sir!
ReplyDeleteAs a college student, it's very rare to see a professor giving a great deal of attention to his students. All of us admire your teachings in Math; making simple steps out of complicated solutions, explaining our previous lessons clearly and thoroughly. like what Einstein had quoted. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" We also hope that you'll be our prof., well, in any subject, in the coming semester. We know we'll a lot from you!
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