Teachers. Mentors. Instructors. Professors.
What do you first think of when these words come across to you? Is there really so much a poverty of knowledge, or experience that renders one unable to teach others, something?
These questions, I’d like you to ponder about this morning. At least, morning hours over here from the Philippines, on a Thursday.
We owe a lot to our teachers. Don’t we?
Think about it, my friend. Without teachers, no one will ever become who they want to become, at least not on their own efforts alone. Someone, some where, has to teach them to get them started on their journey.
For me, this is true. When I first started to enter school, in pre-school, kindergarten, then elementary here in the Philippines. Personally, my mom told me and I also remember somewhat, that I had learning difficulties. Learning the alphabet and how to read or pronounce sounds with letters and words, was hard work for me at that early stage in kindergarten. And it was my good mom who labored to teach me that to supplement what my teachers in pre-school were doing already.
Moving forward, and as I grew older. I learned and realized that teachers barely make enough to make ends meet. And that, they don’t get paid as much as other professionals in the workforce. Yet, without them. Nobody will ever become a professional in their field. Ironic. However, this is an area I hope eventually, we’ll be able to address as a nation. This might be true elsewhere, but here in the Philippines, teachers aren’t compensated that well for their efforts and contributions. At least, this is also my opinion for the matter. It is a delicate problem, as the solution is not easy to implement. If it were, I believe teachers would already have better compensation structures allotted for them.
So, it’s a profession that deserves more of our love.
My older sibling is a teacher. So, I do see it. And I have experienced going across elementary and at times during high-school when our teachers would sell food-stuffs or snacks, and so on.
Anyway, I just wanted to touch across this point. Another area where I wanted to go to with this post — is that, we learn something twice (or even, thrice) if we choose to teach others what we know.
This is very true for I.T. — or, maybe for any other field there is out there.
If you want to master a subject or a topic. One way you could approach this, is to decide to teach someone who is just beginning on their own journey towards it. For me, this is Cloud computing and maybe in some areas, with what’s known as Web Analytics. I have had some experience working as a Web Analyst, and presently, this is my primary bread-and-butter. I still require training to become and work as an engineer. And unfortunately, I have not yet found an organization who has hired me to work solely as an engineer working with services found in the Cloud.
And also for this reason, that I have finally started to write a blog, a small space of my own to share what I can, online.
Try it.
Teach others, something that is meaningful and something that contributes to what is good for you and for them also. It doesn’t have to be complex, or grand. Anything worth the while, most of the time, often starts with small, trivial things.
Take a plant for example.
It starts as a very small seed.
When planted, nurtured, cared-for, watered. The seed grows into a small sprout from the soil. And when sunlight embraces the sprout. It grows further because it can also create (or synthesize) its own food, through a process called, photosynthesis.
And then, when it has grown enough. You put fertilizer around it. You continue to water it, if it applies to the plant type. And you’ll need to prune it from time to time. Or cut small branches and leaves from it. To stimulate more growth. Additionally, if it’s a fruit-bearing plant or tree. You need birds, bees, or other insects to pollinate its flowers — for fruits to grow from it.
The fruits give nutrients to other organisms. Be it, a creature or a human being.
And when fruits’ seeds fall once again to the ground, and gets buried in the soil. The process of growth repeats and the cycle of life. continues.
Much of our human experience, including stages of learning, can be likened to natural processes like these. For me, there is an online marketing that I have grown to have a good grasp on that resembles growing plants organically.
And it’s called, Organic Search Marketing or search engine optimization. It’ll reward your website with free traffic from the web if you choose the slow path, but organic one at cultivating your website’s content.
Anyway…
Back to teaching, my friends.
Teaching does something almost magical. That it allows you to plant seeds in the hearts and minds of other people. Usually, to younger ones. Who, I believe, like my own daughter, will surpass us older ones in our fields, or maybe, in other fields of their choosing. It is our job to help plant good seeds into their minds and hearts.
And we can do this. Through teaching and growing others.
Our contribution to humanity, to our country, to ourselves, doesn’t end with our work inside the office. It need not to.
For it can branch out into or boil down into what we help do for (or teach) our loved-ones, our families, our friends, and so on.
For me, I believe God has a plan for each one of us. And if you look at it carefully, it is God Who is our greatest teacher, a teacher of only good. And we are students of life.
Well, I guess this brings us to the end of this post.
And, I give you my thanks for reading. For spending some time with me on this short write-up of thoughts early in the morning.
I’m studying for something.
Wish me luck, my friends.
Hopefully, with enough effort, perseverance, lessons learnt, and also, and always with God’s graces and if God wills it. I’ll finally land a well-meaning job as an engineer for a good company of people, for people.
Thank you.
Hello there! How are you? My name is Abraham, or, Abe to all my friends, acquaintances, and family.
I’m a young dad, an uncle, an older kuya, and a son. I love learning and putting things together when it comes to small projects around computers, and tech. And for me, I also love food, everyday drink — like coffee, and most furry creatures — like good doggo doggos (goofy doggos), and chonky (very fat, almost circular and literally round) cattos. ^_^ Anyway, I hope good animals also make you chuckle, my friends.
Recently, I was hired to work as an engineer in I.T., specializing in looking after web-servers, maintenance, and a few other stuff.
Thank God! From my end, I had been dreaming to become an engineer in I.T., and have been studying for it for a time now.
We mustn’t stop with our training and study. For we’ll need to keep learning in order for us to remain helpful.
Nawa, ang Panginoon’g Diyos ang Siyang purihin, dakilain, at pasalamatan sa ating mga gawain, at salita.
My friends, may the Lord our God be glorified, honored, and praised – through the kind of work that He called us unto.
Thank you, and for now, that’s mostly it for me. Salamat po!