Those Who Can, Teach
The question might stump most of us for whom teaching has become a non-career, as overworked and underpaid professionals in this field quickly junk their degrees for domestic work abroad to earn more decent wages.
The question might stump most of us for whom teaching has become a non-career, as overworked and underpaid professionals in this field quickly junk their degrees for domestic work abroad to earn more decent wages.
A few months ago, as I sat at breakfast, a cover announcement in Sunday Inquirer Magazine aroused my curiosity and prompted me to turn inside for a story titled “Teachers beyond boundaries: The best lessons are about life.” The issue was celebrating Teachers Day.
When I was a child, there used to be a Kindergarten A and B in my school. You had to go through it before you could step into Grade I. It is notable that the public school system has belatedly found the necessity to add that to their curriculum. In St. Theresa’s College, if the teacher thought a pupil bright, you were allowed to “skip” or “jump” Grade I and go straight to Grade II, as I was.
Last Wednesday, Oct. 5, we celebrated Teachers’ Day. As my way of celebrating teachers’ day, I watched—or re-watched—the film “Good-bye, Mr. Chips,” based on the 1934 classic novel of the same title by James Hilton.
NEW YORK—“Would you like to learn Filipino?” Ask a very young Filipino-American, and you will most likely draw a blank. It’s okay. He can’t decide for himself yet. When puberty
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