6 posts tagged “honesty”
Thank God it's Friday. It will be a break from work and for some unpleasant happenings we've had for the week.
I really got so confused this morning. I was supposed to administer a test in another school for two days(as we always do every grading period) but our school head instructed me to just stay with my kids today because the one who was supposed to guide my students yesterday was MIA. So he told me to come back to school this morning and I didn't know what to do...whether to stay in our own school or finish my assignment I have in another school....I said he should tell the principal where I was assigned that I won't be able to handle the class assigned to me...Pls. Sir tell them not to wait for me...but he said there's no need..."they were supposed to provide us a teacher to handle your class but the one they assigned did not come....they should have given us a teacher to handle your kids yesterday in place of the one who did not come".. .Our principal was kinda upset because the other school did not send any representative to take the place of the one who was supposed to handle my class....I can't blame him actually because he sent us to other schools yet some of those who were assigned to handle our classes were nowhere to be found....So I decided to go back to our school but had pleaded my boss to tell the school where I was assigned to inform them that I cannot make it this morning....How come teachers could be like that?....There have been complaints that some teachers do not perform the duties assigned to them during exams.....Some would not attend to their assignments asking teachers they know to handle two classes instead of one, others would administer the test for a day which is supposed to be administered for two days...pressuring the kids to finish the exam in a day....It's really so frustrating....
I just hope there will be some solutions about these problems on teachers unprofessionalism....
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership)
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
- Share everything.
- Play fair.
- Don't hit people.
- Put things back where you found them.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don't take things that aren't yours.
- Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
- Wash your hands before you eat.
- Flush.
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
- Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Take a nap every afternoon.
- When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
- Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
- And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
I had spent so much time blogging today...First I had to fix something in my old blog...Second, I tried to study Chinese OMG...I surrender, I just can't do it...Third...a friend referred me to a site to study Korean language...I think it would take so much of my time...so maybe it's better to do it during our sem break...besides there are lots of things to do in school nowadays^^...
Yesterday we had the press con...and we just won one of the six categories given.. sigh....anyway it's not bad for newcomers (my pupils were neophytes in the competition)....and we bagged the third place^^....maybe next time we shall have the first place^^....
I had the chance to befriend some teachers in our district and one asked me to let her photocopy some of our IRI reports(reading reports)...but we have to go to a shop for the photocopies so she even volunteered and asked some schools to pay extra amount for them (they still don't have copies of the reports) but I noticed that she did not pay enough for her own....She said she would just pay for her copies at the shop....At the shop she made some bargains with the copies and then she had to pay less amount for them...then she had so much change left...without even paying for her own...She said to me...she had bargained for them so why should she give back the change of those schools who asked her a favor...And worst she told me that we should share with the excess money...So now I got half of it since half were with that crooked teacher... but I will give mine to our principal on Tuesday (no classes tomorrow) bec. I can't bear to have even a little amount of money out of cheating...How this person really made my day so bad!....Luckily....when I went home last Friday I received letters from a friend here at vox that made my day so bright...Yes "there's no rest for the wicked "....I just hope teachers should be role models of honesty...At times I can't blame people who lose their trust and confidence on teachers...coz at times they needed to be taught instead of them teaching others....
Sometimes what we see is not always the real thing....we should seek deeper to see the other side of things....
Have you seen the documentary "The Other Side of Beijing" wherein they showed some parts of China which are found just near the prestigious site where the Olympics was held, and considered as some of the poorest places they have in their country....If you happen to visit the other side of the glamorous Olympic's site....you would enter into those shanties which seem like the squatters area we can see in Tondo, Manila in the Philippines....It reminds me too that we cannot really say that we are a super powerful country just because we could host the Olympics.....if some of our people suffer from poverty...Don't you think so?....
This is happening too in my country as well....I remember way back in the 80's when we hosted an International Film Festival in Manila...They had to rush things to finish the construction of a Film Center but then something happened to this site as it crashed and some workers were trapped inside yet were still alive...but then Imelda Marcos who was the first lady then forced the workers to continue with the construction disregarding those who were still alive in the crashed site....And until now every time we host some ASEAN meetings they had to relocate shanties who could be a not so pleasing view to be caught by the eyes of foreign visitors....Isn't it a shame?....I don't know why we have to hide the truth.....sometimes I am guilty of this too....We can't humble ourselves....we are so afraid that we might not be accepted for who we are....I hope we could really face the truth and be proud of who we really are....
There was this simple story about neighbors.
The poor man had a rich neighbor and since both have completely different lifestyles, they're not that too close with each other.
But one day, the rich man got envious of the poor man because he noticed that his children are not as healthy as that of the poor man's.
He was upset since for him he had given the best for his children so they deserved the best too.
So for the first time he went to his neighbor's house and asked his secret for keeping his family healthy.
The poor man politely said " Sir, since we are neighbors, everytime you cook for your family, my children and I could smell the food coming from your kitchen into ours. Because of that, it has increased my family's appetite for eating. and we thank you Sir for that."
The rich man said " Oh, so it means you owe me for I made your family healthy. You have to pay me for that."
For a while the poor man became silent but managed to say.."Okay Sir, I will tomorrow."
The next day, the poor man with a small bag of coins that he had saved for his family happily met the grinning rich man.
"Here is my payment, take them Sir"....While the rich man eagerly grabs the small bag with coins, the poor man suddenly held back what he was holding and instead shook the bag noisily enough for the rich man to hear........" Sir, since I only owe you the SMELL...so I'll pay you with a SOUND....
My friends isn't it that we have abused our neighbors because of their ignorance and lack of understanding of their rights...
Many of us are guilty of manipulation, of abuse, we even choose the ones we abuse...
Some of our Kababayans are experiencing poverty because they don't know their rights. We have killed their future...
What do we do when we helped them. We say, they must thanked us for giving them education, food, shelter, medicine...
We make our poor Kababayans look like dogs...cheering you...praising you...voting for you ...because they don't know their rights, the rules, the laws, the ordinances, etc....You make them pay for the things they own...When are we going to love and honestly serve our people?....When are we going to become good neighbors?...
Life is not a joke, but some of us have chosen to live it that way.
Everyday should be like a “mortal combat” for we are to fight great temptations that come our way.
Sad to say most of us just let those temptations conquer us…for fame, pride, vanity? Whatever reasons we have, we are losing the battle.
My friends, these are some lines in the poem “Desiderata”
“Avoid loud people for they are vexations to the spirit.”
Loud people teach us dishonesty, vanity, corruption of mind. Things that help us lose the battle.
The One who is the mightiest and the most powerful of all and who has won the battle has taught us honesty, compassion, love. He wants us to join Him in His freedom and triumph.
Reflections from Imitato Christi by Thomas Kempis
We must walk in the presence of God with humility and simplicity, with truth and sincerity. God resists the proud and gives his graces to the humble. We must pray to God not only with our lips, but also with our mind, will, and heart.
