{"id":463,"date":"2006-09-20T21:54:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveactually.fakedevil.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2006-09-20T21:54:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:54:44","slug":"to-touch-lives-open-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"To touch lives, open doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>thanks to caryn!!! read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/articles\/143581.asp\">article<\/a> and i felt v touched.. somehow&#8230; the article reflected how i always felt about teaching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>argh&#8230; too bad! this article came too late else it wld be of handy for my essay!!<\/em> :blank1<\/p>\n<p>u noe when i feel that i wanna be a teacher? it was when i was in Primary School.. i felt so unfair that why aren&#8217;t pupils who are weaker academically chosen to be monitress? or why am i always in the worst grp?i am always in the weakest grp&#8230; i am always the first pupil the teacher wld call up , saying tt they wanna see my parents&#8230; i rem crying all the time&#8230; and i wanted to be a teacher then, so that i cld give weaker pupils a chance to show their potential&#8230; thanks to wonderful teachers who gave me the opportunity to boast my confidence&#8230; and who made me feel special in every way.. else i dun thnk i&#8217;ll be what i am today..<\/p>\n<p>i always wanted to motivate and insipire.. i hope i left footprints in my family and friends&#8217; life.. and now i want do so in my pupils&#8217; life too&#8230; i rem how mad i&#8217;ll be when they talk back to me&#8230; or how discouraged i feel when the lesson doesn&#8217;t go on well.. or even worst i didn&#8217;t get to do wat i wanna do coz of some noti monsters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching is all about sacrifice<\/strong>. utimately, i don&#8217;t have to leave footsteps on every kids&#8217; life&#8230; juz 1 will do&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>as quoted from the article &#8220;<strong>It is a good feeling just to know one&#8217;s student has become a useful, happy member of society and that one might have contributed in some way<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the joy, smile on the pupils&#8217; face or a soft &#8216;thank you&#8217; or &#8216;teacher i help u erase the board k?&#8217; mks it all worthwhile.. :smile1 <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;And so we continue teaching, hoping to touch lives and open doors for some students.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thanks to caryn!!! read this article and i felt v touched.. somehow&#8230; the article reflected how i always felt about teaching&#8230; argh&#8230; too bad! this article came too late else it wld be of handy for my essay!! :blank1 u noe when i feel that i wanna be a teacher? it was when i was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}