Learning during the good old days
Posted on August 8, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Edener Benitez Fabella
8 August 2006
Oh my ghastly self. Now I need to go look inside my closet just in case the last skeleton decided not to do trick or treat and went into my baul instead. Now.. now…now… Ms. Ric don’t you go ridin’ in then SamTrans and BART asking good folks to sign up petition for Fabelous presidency? Thank you very kindly for your word of support. Frankly, last time I remember being a recipient of political support, it was when young men (debonair like me!) were still using ‘tancho-tique hair pomade and wearing pants heavily soaked in starch. I recall my mother (bless her soul) asking me occasionally -”bakit ka laging meron galos sa tuhod at binti?” I would smile and say to her- “it is all part of growing up.” Di ko lang masabi (fearing I might lose my Php0.10 centimong baon) na kung di ba naman kasi saksakan ng kapal nang almirol nitong pantalonity ko halos di ako makalakad na?Those I think were my good years. I recall very vividly as students, we paid close attention to school homeworks and projects. There were rascals who didn’t care whether or not they get promoted to the next grade level. But for the rest of us, we knew the ‘kurots’ we will receive from our teachers if we didn’t do good on our jobs, will be more severe than those expected from mothers. On a bad day, you get it from both Aruy ko!
Talk about projects teachers made us do such as painting street stones, boulders and wooden fences with kalburo. It was our school civic contribution to the locality magandang tingan nga naman. I guess this trip down memory lane has more to do with school discipline of yesteryears. It is not about trivialities of today’s education or how present day faculty members motivate their students in sharing their civic duties.
The things you eluded to proven great in actual practice and in written principle in our respective districts will, undoubtedly, benefit our country and people if only our leaders stop treating citizens their milking cows. It’s in the 9th inning last at bat and losing. Yet, there seems to be no urgency and dedication in staying focused to the problems besetting the nation. Politicians in our country seemed to have deluded themselves into believing, the only interest there is to be had is that of their own. Greed, callousness and insensitivity are skills and fundamentals not acquired in schools. They are bred into decadent leaders who like vultures one day will be extinct.
Thank you and have a great day everyone.
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