Two problems
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Part of The Philippine Educator
- Title
- Two problems
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1947
- Rights
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- "",~ 12 --·. . PHILIPPINE EDUCATOR ''. - ,· 1. • • ... . ,. ~ ' . ~ .. ,..:...... . ,. . . . . . '\: •'i'r .• This. 'account should end right heN, ~ and would spread terror even ~ th~\:. ik but' 1 : -al!l -J:~Ot writing a ;hort story. ~ :', SUr~Ol,tnding._ islands: , /,. ., ::;_· ~ ~- ani{putting down a personal record 01 · _ Wh~t had s<iftened Pika towards· me? ·_}' friglit a}!d fear and an idea:t Then I remembered. An hour be- - . Three days later, way farther up ' . in the mountains of Lagting, Romblon, .::. I had .tiine to collect my thoughts again and put my feelings in order. fore I was set free, he had come u'p the houie with ~he other soldiers, jabbering in Nippongo. -I was able to pick up two. words : kodomo • . . sense-i. . . kodomo . . sense-i, .. ! child. . . teacher. And the stern look had vani:>hed from his eyes~ _ and he was smiling. The tall, oevil-looking J a{p was a }. member of · the murder gang of Toya.- rna. What had melted ltis heart to set ·- ine free? .-. · .. · 1Jn a few more days .his name was to -_ s'pread throughout Romblon I-sland like > a syllable of terror. In a few more days There are little things in life that can break even the hardest man. D,id Pika way down in Japan have a child ·o~ his own? Did he remember the slow, quiet teache·r of his childbood days in .a little Japanese prefecture·? he · was to 'Spill blood on the uplands. In a few more days the live body of the young girl was to be thrown into the flames of her- own burning house. ,In a few more days the tall Jap would be called Pika-his body was tattoedIn these days of comparative peace, sometimes I can hug the idea 'that I am still able to write this because I am a teacher. .. ' TWO PROBLEMS FRANCISCO A. ESQUIVEL Batangas High School Thls is not to belittle the choice of the delegates to the Representative Assembly, but rather in the performance of such heavy duties we are faced with ·a problem! How far can our present Board of Directors carry through our objectives? We must only remember that the members of Congress are wise politicians .and the influence of p,olitics often times spoil . big plans and honest objectives. The task ahead _ is h~avy and numerou.:; and unless those entrusted with these duties and responsibilities are wiser politicians too, and unless we teachers have a strong backing in Congress, our dreams and objectives will be far from realization. A Congressman from the ranks of schoolmen is the need of the hour. Another obstruction we have to consider in the p1ogre.:;s of the as" sociation is the possible lack of support of the community. The organizers of the association have anticipated b!lforehand to be able to create a better understandi'ng and good will between teachers and the community. The Association is not secure unless we have the full sup., port of the people, and its success depends very much on the success of P.arent-Teacher Associations.