Weekly Reflections #31: Lessons from my Profession | "A teacher and educator"

I cannot claim that I have dreamed since childhood of working in the field of education, it never happened to be honest, I have been obsessed with the media since childhood, I happened to present many news bulletins in front of the mirror when I was a child, I wanted to face this world and tell it everything that happens in it, good and bad alike, through television screens. Days and years passed, and the dream came true, but after a while, I decided to leave what was achieved, and actually moved to a completely different field. The destination was the field of education, although I was not very enthusiastic about the matter, but I decided to try it, and the start was exactly in the primary stage.

To be honest, everything seemed suspicious to me at the beginning, especially since I was employed at the time in a remote area. The first week passed and I got to know the students I was then scheduled to be their teacher, and during that short period, I loved them with all the meaning of the word, the paternal feelings awakened inside me, and I became attached to them, and from here my passion for my new job began to grow and grow, slowly, slowly.

In the second week, I felt that I had never loved another profession other than teaching, I began to wear my white apron with great love, I carried my bag, and entered my classroom with a smiling face, and high positive energy, and frankly, working in the primary stage, despite its fatigue, is very enjoyable, given the wonderful times I lived its details with the children I was teaching. After that, I moved to the intermediate stage, then I was appointed to the secondary stage. I lived in the intermediate and secondary stages, different details from what I lived in the primary stage, but each time my attachment to my job, to those who study with me, and to the message that I perform increased.

I felt many times that I planted a great deal of love for learning, and self-confidence in the souls of those I taught, and through that, I discovered that education is not related to stuffing the minds of learners with specific knowledge, quite the opposite, education is related to our skills as professors and teachers, in making learners continue with us, and without us, and that is through training them in self-learning more than anything else, through which they get to know themselves and their abilities.

I remember that one of my students in one of the high schools where I worked, waited for the bell to ring one time, and when I was about to leave the classroom, he asked me if I had studied psychology at university. I denied it, and inquired about the reason that prompted him to ask the question, so he told me that he discovered through what I used to repeat to them on certain occasions that he could actually study the subject I was teaching them, and many other subjects. As the days passed, I began to hear almost the same words from many of the students I taught.

Today, after years of working in the field of education, and after actually working in the three stages, I can confirm to everyone that the teaching profession is indeed difficult, but it is sublime, and its sublimity was acquired, in my opinion, first and foremost from our abilities as professors and teachers in building the human being in learners, and constantly pushing him forward. There is no benefit to be expected from generations that are educated and broken from within. It is true what was said: “When you rebuild the human being, you rebuild the world.” I will not deny that a number of professors and teachers in my country and in other sister and friendly countries have been subjected, at certain times, to attacks by students who studied with them, some of whom suffer from psychological disorders and certain family problems, and some of whom unfortunately use drugs.

Violence in educational institutions in recent years has not only been committed by some members of the sector, but has also come from some students, especially in the secondary stage. There are many stories that some colleagues tell us with great regret and sadness, prompting us to sound the alarm and shed light on this phenomenon that is somewhat unspoken about, noting that generalization is unhealthy, and the abnormal cannot be measured by any means, but there is no harm in talking about it and seeking to find solutions that prevent its spread and prevalence in our educational institutions.

Last but not least, there are many things that made my heart attached to practicing this profession, but if I were asked about the most important one, I would say: “The love I see in the eyes of those who study, and their appreciation for any effort I make for them.”

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