REVOLTING AGAINST THE GODS

The truth can never be taught it would always be to its very essence found. Education tracing its origins from the liberation of the greek people from the darkness of mythology strives to push and to transcend man from being a brute of myths to a rational being. It is therefore a goal of educators to keep on striving to keep the world going after and transcending that rational man. The classroom is then should be viewed as a church, a magnificent temple and a formidable citadel of a new religion, a religion where faith would never be based on fables and myths of pigments of imagination, but would find its foundations and columns proudly standing on the unshakable and eternal truth. One must then revere every single moment spent on the classroom for it would always be day by day a revolt against the ancient, a day by day run of Prometheus to enlighten and illumine every soul of the future of mankind.

A run towards the light a constant struggle and a day by day task of keeping the world in light for the world to see and for the world to make the world a world for rational men by rational men and of rational men. One must see that education, is a never ending struggle, a struggle in which those who give up loses the very essence of being human itself, for there would be not a difference between a brute and an ignorant one, both only works for survival of oneself and does not possess the fundamental and the essential need of rationality which is transcendance towards the truth.

Teachers, unlike the shamans and the priests that offer animals and burnt offerings, should offer themselves as a beacon, a lighthouse to signal that in the darkest and the worst storms of the journey of life a firm and a dry land which is truth is not and would never be beyond reach.

--oOo— The author is Head Teacher I, San Roque Arbol Elementary School, Lubao, Pampanga