THE TEACHER AS AN ENTREPRENEUR

MARILYN R. MALLO

Teachers nowadays don’t only teach about their respective subjects but entrepreneurship as well. A student, though intellectually gifted can’t go the distance if he is poor. One student was a graduate of the Philippine Science High School ended up vending cigarettes in the street. The boy was a math genius and could have been a successful engineer or professor in the academe, but because of poverty, he became an outcast in the society, jeered and sweered by professions who are far inferior to his intellect. Had been taught entrepreneurship, he could have supported his way through college and became a somebody in the society.

It is on this premise that teachers conduct entrepreneurship seminars to teach young students how to cook, bake, process food, and make handicrafts or anything by which to expand their artistic and entrepreneurship horizons. It is their social responsibilities to train and equipped these youngsters for them to see their way through college. Life must not really be that hard for someone who could handle it. Many successful individuals who are now many times a millionaire started in selling their wares in schools and streets to support their educations. They now support these entrepreneurship programs to reciprocate the kindness of the teachers who sacrificed quality times with their families and took time in teaching them.

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The author is Teacher III at Sindalan Elementary School