Breaking Barriers Through English

          Every country has their own languages and dialects.  Since our language is our own identity, we must love and be proud of it.  However, in order to to understand people around the world, they assigned the so- called international language and that is English.

          Since we, Filipinos, were once colonized by Americans whose language is English, it is not anymore surprising that we can speak English easily because of the influence we got from Americans.  For other countries, they could hardly speak this language unless they attend an English class of or get to English countries like USA.

           In order to have a unity among nations, people really need to have a common language to understand each other. Since not every word have the same meaning in every nation, a single word might be good and flatters a person's heart for a nation but it might be an ear-sore for other nation.  So everyone in this world must be familiar with English and speak it freely and easily. Each one of us must be responsible enough to break the barrier and continue the chain reaction.  Having camaraderie is not the only thing brought by international language  but also, a person can also gain a friend from other countries because of this.

         Do not be afraid to learn and use English though they say that we must patronize our own because learning other countries languages is not turning our back to our own nation.

"Filipinnovation: The Way Forward"

          Compared to other small countries like Singapore and Japan, our country, Philippines, is now left behind.  Japan, though they lack natural resources, proved that it is not the hindrance to make them left behind. In the Philippines, to think that we are rich in natural resources, we are very far from what is to be expected .  So we must think of a way for us to be like Japan or even the United States.

          We need some change.  On order to make our country to be more developed, we need to have a greater labor power.  When a children grow up, they must be taught and their eyes must be opened to what we really need and that is innovation.  It's better for them to be taught earlier because we never knew if they will be the ones out of many Filipinos who can develop or invent something that could make our country move forward.

          Every Filipino must help in developing or upgrading what has already been discovered or invented. Every one of us must be well- informed and taught about things that need to be innovated for us to sustain what we lack, and that is the manpower.

          If all Filipinos could be like Agapito Flores, Jose Rizal, or like Luz Oliveros- Belardo or William Padolina, our country will not anymore be like its status today. In the future, it will be like one of the giants who is popular to every other country.

My Teacher, My Hero

          Being a teacher is not easy as spelling then pronouncing it, or singing ABC and counting 123.  This  is not a profession to be looked down and laughed at for it holds one of the greatest responsibility in our society.  However, students in this generation seem not to care about their teachers anymore that they even take them for granted.  It seems that the only thing that is important for them is that they are in their classroom whether to listen or not to listen, learning or not, as long as they are called students of an institution, they don't care what their teachers feel anymore. 

          Being taken for granted is now a problem all over the world now so since I am a student, and honestly speaking, I am also taking them for granted sometimes.  Having the thought of having no teacher in our classrooms, just studying alone or maybe a robot discussing different lessons, can  I really learn something?

         Imagining myself without a teacher, I said to myself that yes, I can learn something but  it can  only be limited. I may have the books to read but the problem is, what if I cannot understand what it says?   I can't ask the book to explain it to me since it does not talk.  Or, maybe I can attend an institution with robots as teacher instead of a human teacher since the world is so advanced now that technologies can do anything and everything.  However, speaking of robots, my teacher once said that robots can be a good teacher but it will only discuss what is programmed in its memory.  That is why, human teachers are still the ones who can really help us  since they open our eyes to discover different things in this world.  They have the biggest impact on the kids' life.  Ever since we are still small kids, they were already there teaching us the lesson we must learn and light up the fire to make us closer to our dreams.   They are the hope of the future of every student in this world.  They are making us believe that we can reach even the highest star.

          Teachers are the real hero.  They are the professionals who make other professional. There will be no engineers. There will be no doctors.  There will be no lawyers if there are no teachers.  There will be no Bill Gates or any successful business man who completes the chart of richest man around the globe, no Obama and there will also be no Aquino.   Teachers are really important in our society.  They must be looked up because they are the real stars.  They should not be taken for granted.

"Without a wise parent or a school with wise teachers, a kid will not grow up being wise unless he finds it not in technologies, not in books but in other PEOPLE."

"Teachers are the eye- opener to every man he teaches. They make people believe that what we think that is different to others can also be similar."