Hard work

A code of action that requires its valuers to carry out a certain task with sustained and unwavering effort in order to achieve a lofty goal (e.g., breaking a record or winning a gold medal in the Olympic games). With discipline and guidance of a sharp mentor, hard work almost always leads to excellence. And excellence, you can bet, to success.

Teaching is good for the soul

Teaching affords the teacher and his/her students a great deal of opportunity to advance in age with more grace and like a fine wine. In teaching, plenty of higher problems are within reach to keep one's hungry mind busy. Certainly, teachers are very lucky creatures for they always have the real option of elevating their and other people's being.

Teaching in the Philippines

Indeed, teaching does not guarantee learning. For anyone could possibly learn something without having been instructed by a teacher. This, however, is not to say that a teacher need not mind if he/she fails to teach his/her students. If a teacher would depart from the assumption that no learning could possibly take place in class if the teacher will never teach well enough, chances are one's teaching shall become more effective. Using this assumption as a teaching guide in the Philippines, however, is nothing like a walk in the park owing to the over-sized classes that both the private and public schoolteachers are handling every year. If one is truly an effective teacher in the Philippines, then he/she must really have an impossibly deep sense of duty to his/her students and vocation/profession.