“Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has the opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya

Part II of the 3-part Series on “Teaching Is Not A Fallback.” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World.

Another unforgettable scene for me was the conversation between Holland and his co-teacher and friend who was a P.E. teacher and a football coach. He was asking Holland a favor — to teach playing an instrument and making a band member one of his quarterback players whose grades are miserable so the school would still let him play for the team. Apparently, the boy was hopeless when it comes to playing any instrument and Holland rejectedly told this to his friend who said to him:

“You’re a lousy teacher if you can’t teach a willing student.”

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“Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya

In our guidance and counseling subject last night, Our professor Dr. Pasco made us choose between a lecture or watching a movie (with a reflection paper to be passed after). Of course, since we were all tired (coming to classes from our day jobs), we were happy for a movie breather so we chose the latter.

We bought our chichirya (junk foods) and c2 (ice tea) and settled to watch the night’s premier —Mr. Holland’s Opus — a story of a musician turned teacher who greatly affected lives of his students and made a notable impact in his community.

Richard Dreyfuss plays the role of Glenn Holland, the musician whose goal is to create his own composition so he took the job of a teacher thinking it would give him more free time to focus on making his song.
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