Commitment- teach as if it
were the last living day of your life,
when one thinks about how very precious the gift of each individual that
enter our life with hope, there is the internal realization that the commitment must not be one that is based on the premise
or honour of payments and contracts.
The commitment of a teacher is in excess
of these, the entrustment of a gift of life to nurture is in excess of the
ordinary, it is more than the designation of work or of a career. It is also a
very real opportunity to offer positive influence that will shape a life.
Commitment also means that a teacher will
not just lock in a time of lesson on a contractual basis and see a student to
only teach. The instrument that one teaches is only a piece of wood and nothing
more; the music resides in the soul of the student. A caring and committed
teacher will negotiate and meet all underlying challenges in evoking and
caressing music out of a student, the student’s heart may be of the
construction of rock or ice – our call is to chisel and sculpture with the
tools of music character out of each
student that we receive as a grace in
life.
It is my believe that education is the
special thread of commitment that bonds
and binds- parents, students and teachers to secure the life of an individual.
Dominic Damian
15th October 2013
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