Being a teacher is a great responsibility. When you are a teacher, you impart something to your students. In fact, you impart a little part of your ownself to your students. I am already eighteen years old and I have had countless teachers in my entire life. I actually look up to all of them. I also salute them for molding me and for contributing to my own development.
In my life, I know a lot of people who is like Sedgewick Bell. Students who are not so serious about what they’re doing because they do not actually know the reason and importance of studying. As a friend, I try to talk to them and lead them to the right way. I feel that I should do it and that it is my responsibility to do it because if I would be able to change him/her, I would be contributing to the betterment of the society. Mr. Hundert said, “Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance.” This means that in whatever we do, we should aim towards progress and betterment.
I was glad when Mr. Hundert was able to influence Sedgewick to study and do well in his studies. Sedgewick felt that Mr. H wants him to progress and so he did. Mr. Hundert said, “However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.” As a teacher, Mr. H aims to mold his students to be a better person. He also said that “The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.” It doesn’t mean that when you fail once, you will never succeed. If you fail, it doesn’t mean that you are a failure. It just means that you have not yet succeeded. I salute Mr. H for trusting someone like Sedgewick. Mr. H gave Sedgewick a chance to change his ways. Mr. H believed in him. Too bad Sedgewick broke his trust. I don’t actually agree in Sedgewick’s ways. “I live in a real world where people do what they need to do to get what they want. If it is lying, if it is cheating, then so be it.” The end does not justify the means. I believe that in everything that we do, we should do what is right and honorable.
-->I wrote this for my Values class. (3rd Term SY 2010-2011)
In my life, I know a lot of people who is like Sedgewick Bell. Students who are not so serious about what they’re doing because they do not actually know the reason and importance of studying. As a friend, I try to talk to them and lead them to the right way. I feel that I should do it and that it is my responsibility to do it because if I would be able to change him/her, I would be contributing to the betterment of the society. Mr. Hundert said, “Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance.” This means that in whatever we do, we should aim towards progress and betterment.
I was glad when Mr. Hundert was able to influence Sedgewick to study and do well in his studies. Sedgewick felt that Mr. H wants him to progress and so he did. Mr. Hundert said, “However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.” As a teacher, Mr. H aims to mold his students to be a better person. He also said that “The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.” It doesn’t mean that when you fail once, you will never succeed. If you fail, it doesn’t mean that you are a failure. It just means that you have not yet succeeded. I salute Mr. H for trusting someone like Sedgewick. Mr. H gave Sedgewick a chance to change his ways. Mr. H believed in him. Too bad Sedgewick broke his trust. I don’t actually agree in Sedgewick’s ways. “I live in a real world where people do what they need to do to get what they want. If it is lying, if it is cheating, then so be it.” The end does not justify the means. I believe that in everything that we do, we should do what is right and honorable.
-->I wrote this for my Values class. (3rd Term SY 2010-2011)
