What is the most valuable skill I would impart to my students if I were a teacher?
I would impart the shill of being contented. Firstly, I believe it is very important because as we grow up, we learn many things. And as we gain knowledge, we will start to expect more from others and ourselves. Many a times, life becomes bitter and unhappy. However, the standard of living is increasing, we get more things than we had when we were young. So why is it that we were so much happier when we were younger? This is because we have higher targets in life, and we ask for even more. For example a sweet can easily bring a wide smile to a toddler’s face whereas the latest handphone can only bring moments of joy to a teenager. Therefore, I believe that being contented is a very important skill that we should all have.
Also, when we are contented, we live life with a smile on our faces. Yes that is exactly what many are searching for. Something that can bring a smile to their face. However it has been right under their noses during that long search. Just because they cannot make do with what they already have, they have to keep trying to find something to make themselves happy. And when their time is up and they cannot continue their search, they finally see what it is that can bring them true happiness. However then, it is all too late.
To clear some of the doubts that people may have, being contented is totally different from being easily contented. The most obvious difference between the two is that being contented means working for what you want but if you fail to achieve it, you are still happy. Being easily contented means not even working for what you want, instead you make do with what you have.
Being contented is a very important yet difficult thing to do. Those around you, including yourself, will push you to achieve more than you think you can. However if you fail, how many will stay behind to help you get back on your feet and then encourage you to try again? I think that the minute we are born, we should be trying to please ourselves and only ourselves. On the contrary, all of us are doing the opposite. Trying to please our parents, our teachers, and we end up the sad, pitiful ones. We are left to pick ourselves up, to stand up on our feet and try harder the next time, after the midyears do I realize sometimes, we shouldn’t be trying so hard. Because despite the immense effort put in by students, I still see sad faces.
Learning should be a fun process, never determined by results. And that is why if I were a teacher, I would impart the skill of being contented to my students.
9 comments:
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9:44 PM, June 10, 2008
Hi za bo, rmber to do homework(comment on everyone's blog, go see mr kek blog). Keep up the good work with your posts!!
by YANG JIEMIN, @
9:46 PM, June 10, 2008
Very good post!
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8:27 AM, June 13, 2008
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3:21 AM, June 14, 2008
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8:27 PM, June 17, 2008
thats a long post...
by C.S, @
11:37 AM, June 24, 2008
Agree. But being contented is not as easy as it seems...
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7:34 PM, June 24, 2008
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by , @
7:36 PM, June 24, 2008
nice post...
and hamsters...
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7:37 PM, June 24, 2008