Teachers: Sower of Good Seeds

“It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.  It is smaller than all other seeds, but once it is fully grown, it is bigger than any garden plant; like the tree, the birds come and rest in its branches.”

More than any other professions the teaching profession has the capacity to plant more seeds on the lives of every child.  These are seeds of good values that can be sown directly and indirectly inside and outside of the classrooms.  It can be done verbally or through the actions that the teachers will demonstrate in the class in each daily meeting.

The school is considered to be the child’s second home and the teachers being their second parent.  The good seeds that have been sown from the house can be nurtured in the school if the teachers will cultivate it.  Indeed, the role of the teachers inside the school is not just to plant the seeds of knowledge but to plant and nurture as well the seeds of good values.

In this world where consumerism, commercialism and secularism are sprouting like weeds that are competing and about to outgrow the seeds of good values that were planted the role of the school and the teachers are very important.  Good and bad nowadays live side by side.  Temptations that the devil is offering sometimes are more slobbering that one can’t resist.  Technologies and modern “idols” are being used in order for the young ones to be tempted.

For this, teachers should serve as a mediumto counteract this modern “idols” not to compete them, but to show to these children that the real idols are not these men but GOD alone. In this, we will be assured that these children sown with good seeds will grow into a well valued person like a robust tree where birds come and rest.