An Ordinary Teacher

CHERRIE MAE L. FLORES

The most important reward that a teacher receives is when she sees the fruit of her hard work. When she sees her pupils succeed in any field they have chosen, that is rewarding. It makes a teacher very happy and proud when someone she has bumped into recognizes her and tells that she has been her from afar tries to get in touch, asks that’s rewarding. It makes a teacher feel important and appreciated when someone from afar tries to get in touch, asks her how she is, sends her gifts, sweet messages and says thank you for once in her lie, she has been her teacher, that’s rewarding. It makes a teacher feel proud and fulfilled. Countless instances like these happen in a teacher’s life, which most of the time is unexpected, yet they are inspiring. These are the spices that make her life meaningful and fulfilled.

Most of the time, a teacher sees herself as the most ordinary member of the society as compared to other people with different profession and career. She sometimes feels less important and unwanted. Well that’s what she thinks, but contrary to it, she is the most important factor in every child’s success and achievement. She is the strongest foundation where the child stands and never gets away from it until she reaches the top of whatever she has dreamed of in life. It is that foundation that serves as the path that guides the child to where she should be. The ordinary teacher molds and leads a child on how to become a good member of the family, better person in the community and the best citizen every nation could ever have.

Behind every success, goes the legacy of an ordinary teacher, and behind every teacher is an extra ordinary character, the character of a teacher that no one can replace. A teacher is never an ordinary member of the society Se is an extra ordinary person whom no one can imitate. A person who never gets tired of doing what is best for the pupil, for the family, the community and the country. In her hands, lies the future of the world. An ordinary teacher in the eyes of man is an extra ordinary teacher in the eyes of God who abundantly blesses her life and prepares the best place for her in heaven

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The author is Teacher II at Sta. Lucia Elementary School, Sta. Ana, Pampanga