Educators

Educators - most call them teachers, a few term them friends; but what they do is teach.

They are set in the system to teach us about life and what is important to life. They teach to prepare us for the world and work ahead. They teach to impart skills that are said to transcend the classroom and its learning. And in doing so, as is the inevitable when teaching about life, they teach us what it means to be human.

Yet, recent experiences have cast doubt on the goals and purposes of educators as I've known them for the past two years. What I've seen and witness has not adequately reflected and embodied behavior and attitudes that we should live life by.

All I see is the strife and ambition, bearing no consequences to what destruction they leave in their wake as long as they get what they so desperately long for. To them, the means will always justify the ends. I see backbiting and betrayal as if loyalty were a foregone utopia. I see no semblance of the friendships and brotherhoods they tell us our youth would forge. I see no care nor concern for "the future of the nation", when all they want is in the now. Students and their grades are but the tools by which they get what they strife for. Fame, accolades, promotions, recognition - all these are more important than the well-being our the very fragile minds they were meant to nurture and develop.

Whatever happened to morals, ethics and values; to trust, love, integrity and honesty? What happened to the practice of doing what's right instead of what's easy? These people have become the values they so falsely preach against.

It is indeed a shame...

And that is why I'm leaving. For more than all the academic purposes and courses I seek to take elsewhere, my value system cannot be eroded by such false prophets in our midsts. I am shunned, for I dare to be different; for seeing more than my peers; for realising the falsehoods and lies that they would try to cover up in their hypocrisy.

And that is why I'm leaving. I love to learn, and they have taught me nothing.