I feel honored...

Philippines
June 22, 2008 11:20am CST
Two weeks ago, one of my former students visited me to tell me that she will be moving to the US as she was hired in one of the companies she applied for after she graduated last year. I found out that I was the only teacher she informed about her blessing. Last week, one of my former students called me up to tell me that he was in the airport and he was leaving for Saudi Arabia. He will be working there for a big company. He told me that I was the only teacher in our department whom he has informed about this. Last Thursday, another former student of mine came to visit me in the office. She got hired by one of the biggest accounting firms here in the Philippines. She kept whispering so I asked her why she was whispering and she told me that she did not want other people in our faculty room to hear. Wow! Am I so proud of these former students of mine! I really feel honored...
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22 responses
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
22 Jun 08
That just proves how very good you are at your profession on teaching as well as being a good mentor, a friend as well as an icon that they look up to compared to the other teachers that they cam across during their years of studying. some can teach but, not most of them grant significant impact towards their pupils. That is indeed a wonderful thing and I also happen to have a teacher like that, or your rather, which, if fortunate that I do find a good job that I could really be proud of, or perhaps one that would really be worth recognizing, I'd also drop by at our school and see how that professor of mine is doing as well as tell of what I have accomplished with the help that sHe has given. I just do hope that sHe will still be there and not elsewhere in some other university..
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I will if I will
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I do hope that you will find your former professor. Thanks!
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@beki710 (949)
22 Jun 08
That's really great that your students have appreciated you so much that they like to keep you over others updated about how you have helped them shape their lives. You really should be proud of yourself! I wish I had teachers like that while I was at 6th form. I hope that I have a teacher who I will benefit strongly while I am at University.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I really can't explain how proud I am to see my students succeed in their chosen fields... I hope you will find a teacher from whom you will really learn a lot. Cheers!
@moondancer (7431)
• United States
22 Jun 08
You should feel honored. It's ot often that students go tell former teachers anything. But them wanting "you" to know about their good deals is a honor to you and them. It shows what kind of teacher you are. They respect you and your teaching is what they feel helped them to get where they are. Feel good lady you deserve it.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Oh yes moondancer! I really feel good.. Thanks!
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
22 Jun 08
Hi there dolce, that is great for them..Maybe you have contributed a lot in their achievements and they are looking that as a gratitude for sharing your knowledge to them...Maybe soon, you will be getting presents from these students.LOL! Are they accouting students, I remember you are teaching investment! Cheers!
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I hope I did influence them in one way or another. I do teach business subjects to both Business Administration and Accountancy students.
22 Jun 08
That is very thoughfull of your students to tell you how their lifes are going and you must have been a big influence in their life for them to want to share their news with you. congratulations on being such a good teacher and role model.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I agree.. They are very thoughtful and I appreciate that. Thanks for the kind words my friend!
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
That's so sweet. I guess it really means a lot for a teacher when the students become successful. I hope I'll be able to share my success stories my favorite professors as well. SO far I'm still job hunting, but I'm on a break right now. I have already declined several offers and am waiting on some pending applications. Do you teach accounting only?
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• Philippines
24 Jun 08
Thanks mimico! I teach other business subjects to both Business Administration and Accountancy students....
@friendship (2084)
• Canada
23 Jun 08
Congratulations! It means that your students have really appreciated what you have done. You're their favorite teacher. Perhaps, you did a great job! That's why they want to let you know how good you are in their way.
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Wow! I really love to know that I am their favorite teacher despite my being strict...
• United States
23 Jun 08
You must have been one heck of a teacher. You should be honored that they came to tell you and only you. You should be proud of yourself for having taught them well. It's good when students go back to their teacher to show them how succesful they are being. Good job.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Thanks ayumitakashi for the kind words...
@cortney09 (1345)
• United States
24 Jun 08
Wow, you should feel great. They must have really thought a lot of you for you to be the only person among the faculty that they told. I bet you feel really proud of these former students of yours, going on to such great things.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Jun 08
dolce vita that is just wonderful and shows you must be an excellent teacher to have students coming back to tellyou of their plans. You should feel proud of them and proud of yourself for they are telling you that you did a fine job of teaching them.
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I am really happy everytime my former students come to me or get in touch with me to update me of how they are doing... Thanks hatley!
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
good day.. Yes, you should feel honored considering they were your former students and they still communicate to you and share their blessing with you. I think you're a great teacher and good at doing your job that's why you've gain a lt of respect from them.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
I really love it when my former students go out of their way to get in touch with me.
@liuqian (476)
• China
23 Jun 08
It's so nice to hear this,dolce.You must did a very good job!Students all hope to have their teachers like you. that is considerated,kind,take them as your lovely friends.It is their lucky to have you as their teacher. some of my teachers are also very kind and we had a good time together.I'd also like to share my life with them,but now i can't get in touch with them.If i can,i will.^^Hope you have a good time.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Well, I am also lucky to have them as my students..
@YOULANLIU (311)
• China
23 Jun 08
I think this could be the common feeling of all the teachers.For teachers,the most to be proud of the matter is that their students have a satisfactory status quo.As we have entered the unniversity,we would come back to see our secondary school teachers every year,they were very pleased about our visit and concerned about our future development.Teacher is indeed a job worthy of respect.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Teaching is not really a high-paying job especially here in our country. For me, when I see my students graduate, I am really happy and happier, when I see them succeed in their chosen fields. That is way more than the financial compensation I get from my job. Thanks youlanliu!
@fwangaa (3057)
• China
23 Jun 08
After i read your article, I also want to be a teacher.
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• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Well, if you really want to be a teacher, go ahead and pursue that dream! Good luck to you!
@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
23 Jun 08
Wow!! You have a right to feel honored and Special. With something like this, it shows that the students Trust you, and feel you have done a Good job for them to help them be able to move on and get more out of their life. I would feel proud and honored too if something like this happened to me as well.
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• India
23 Jun 08
You prove to be the role model, and the inspiration of the students. I am of the opinion, students any point of their time gets attracted, to any one of the policies or practices that you would have followed. And this would have created a high esteem about you in their minds. A role of a good teacher is to Inspire than to teach. And pal dolce_vita, me too have great inspiring teachers. Very often i have a teacher, who taught me, when i was schooling..and that is 25 years ago..and now he happens to visit my office at times. Whenever he happens to come, i would automatically get up from my seat and never sit down, before him. But he would compel me to forget that he is my teacher, and would say that i am in a better position than him. But my mind, will never get reconcilled to what he says to me. He taught me,my mother tongue, but that does not inspire me, what inspired me from his teaching is " Do what ever job, assigned to you with utmost sincerity" So, Dolce_vita, my friend, you have proved to be a role model, and i am really happy to converse with one such teacher i had. Take care friend.
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@bagumbayan (2705)
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
Congratulations! You are a good teacher. If not they wont let you know. As a student before, I also knew teachers who are kind and who treats their students as their friend or their own children. May your tribe increase.
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@masterdw (90)
• China
23 Jun 08
It just proves that you are a wonderful teacher,as well as a colse friend for your students,I wish I were your sutdent.I'm a graduate student now,my mentor is kind and knowledable,I respect lim so much,but he has at least 15 students,10 of whom are Dr.,so he is very busy.And I am aways afraid to interupt him if I have nothing on academic problem.But I graduate and find a good job, I'll act like your students,beacuse it's him who enable me to get the job.
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• China
23 Jun 08
you are such a nice teacher,the gift from the students is the most precious rewards for a teacher.i have been a teacher for a year also,first ,i found that it was very difficult to contact with my students,partly because i was not so patient being with them,on the other hand,i never talked with them about my inner heart,the only one thing to meet them was about the class.and now when i face back i am so regretful that i never treated them as my friends then.it was a bad experience,it told me that you showed your inner heart,then it would be showed back.
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@lan999 (7)
• China
23 Jun 08
Congratulation! I think you must be a good teacher.YOu deserve it.
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