One of my students, to whom I taught physics, recently congratulated me on taking a brief spotlight on national television. I relayed my appreciation to the student for remembering to applaud me.
Here is the filament of our communication:
Me: You have a better and brighter future la.
All the resources, energy, exposure, and your capacity.
Capture the world’s attention!
Student: “Yes sir, the world awaits in it’s full potential and beauty. But seeing the system so corrupted and handicapped, who so ever wishes to be a member of this greater world finds no little peace. To believe in oneself is just a blame and shame to itself. But, with profound wisdoms of you all, the battle seems a bit of fun”
Me: Wow. So philosophical. Are you not Durkheim?
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| A screenshot of our communication material |
My students congratulating me on my relatively insignificant milestone did not overwhelm me. I actually offered in my previous post that I would script a poignant admiration and acknowledgement deeply committed to my students.
I am incredibly aware of my students. They were the only potential witnesses who genuinely understood my role as a teacher in the last 12 years of my teaching career. Without the wick of their motivations to learn, it would have been impossible for me to light the flame of meaning in my life.
However, this time, I was intrigued by one of my students’ correspondences during our brief chat. If one has read about Émile Durkheim’s sociological contributions, one can easily understand why I have underlined one of the sentences in my student’s correspondence. The student coughed a Durkheimian language. So profound from a higher secondary school student.
I will come back to it later. For now, my purpose is to archive this wisdom laden material that can be recycled for future use.
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