Teachers are silent achievers

TEACHERS are silent achievers.
Though they are trodden upon, looked over with pity and lied to a number of times with promises of monetary rewards, they are actually adept masters and mistresses of enduring patience.
They achieve too much without much and the workloads outweigh their rewards.
Their needs are occasionally made to look trivially secondary but they are ardent builders who build with a compassionately unconditional love.
Recall the time when you walked into that classroom without a clue of the alphabet at a pre-school or to that lecture theatre hopeful of studying the complex compositions of hydrocarbons in organic chemistry at the university.
You were there, shapeless and without form.
It was then that someone shaped and guided you throughout the years of treading the corridors of your educational development.
Whatever stages of learning you proudly boasts of having undergone, it was the chief architects of the human minds that took you on an audacious journey of learning and discovery.
They developed the mental prowess you carry around up to this time and age.
The fame, privileges and the know-how you enjoy today came at an expense. Someone invested time and labour in your intellectual development so that you can be who you are today.
Regardless of whatever echelons of professional career you may have ascended, you owe your mentors big time for their part in refining
you to your finest and yet valuable form.
Teachers stand the test of time and fail to waver in the face of adversity.
Promises of improving their conditions of employment remain in futility and perhaps tainted as a far cry these days.
Successive governments have risen to prominence over the years and many have had promised teachers of overhauling their conditions of employment for the better but to no avail.
Only time will tell when the conditions will generally improve for them.
Many who have waited in suspense for a hefty pay packet rewarding them of their perseverance in full measure have passed on but their hopes still live on in the hearts of the ones who are alive today.
Teachers still hope for and look forward to a brighter day when they shall be compensated for their enduring patience and years of dedication to a noble calling.
Perhaps they deserve a better remuneration package proportionately designed to maintain balance with their rigorously tireless efforts will certainly rest the heated agenda accordingly once and for all.

SLY EFFA