Special Program in the Arts
Personal Experience as a Student Teacher
Danny Boy B. Nacario
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
What Went Right and What Went Wrong
ROADSIDE PARADOX
We all fight battles. This one specifically is an unfought one, like our fear of the unknown or our Stone Age fear of the night. It is futile I guess to be afraid of things that never posed any terror at all and at the end of it we find they were to be cherished than to be feared.
Our world is filled with battles every now and then, challenges are everywhere, and enemies lurking at every turn in a battleground we call “school”. We lived in a box of faulty basis and assumptions, we have shunned intelligence as we have before. That is what to expect from a society poisoned by spiritual, if not magical nature of events which in truth just a matter of stupidity of our caveman ancestors. We are millennia apart from these savages but we act and think like these brutes and persecute those that goes against the norms. You call yourself intelligent? I call you stupid. The universality of an idea or thought never suggests that it is right or even based on sound philosophy. Man have thought for millennia that the world is flat but only lately that we realized this knowledge is far from reality. In the course of learning and establishing the “new truth”, the ancients have oppressed those that goes against the established conviction of the fools.
This is what I’ve came to realized during some time in one of these battlegrounds (Baao National High School Annex Campus) and what I also concluded is that teachers face a hard path just like the students they nurture. Students are in a pressed in trenches while teachers are losing the fight but we have to stand up and face whatever that is laid upon us. Students may find it hard to be in the line of fire (studying) and teachers may find it difficult to push among ranks and seize the victory from the enemies disguised as poverty, oppression and many more but we have to for it is what should be done. We are remember not for how we lived or how we died but rather of what we become in the process of living and dying.
In the end we shall be the protectors of intelligence, of ideas of innovation no matter what the field is. Let us not become its murderers. We learn, we teach but the question ends up with whether we changed someone’s life and lead it to a better one.
DANNY BOY B. NACARIO
Student Teacher