{"id":13117,"date":"2012-09-08T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2012-12-02T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:21:54","slug":"teacher-by-sl-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13117","title":{"rendered":"Teacher  by  SL Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Teacher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0by Kong Shiu Loon<\/p>\n<p>Those were years of social transition<br \/>\nWhen teaching was still an admired profession<br \/>\nYoung men and women saw it as a lifelong career<br \/>\nHelping children grow and thrive was a challenging frontier<\/p>\n<p>I watched Ms Ho handling a pupil sent to her for disciplining<br \/>\nHe had wronged a classmate with swearing and spitting<br \/>\nMs Ho asked and patiently listened to the pupil his story<br \/>\nHe showed defiance and elegance telling her not to worry<\/p>\n<p>It was a long counseling session lasting for half an hour<br \/>\nIn the end the pupil recognized his wrongs with tears and a deep bow<br \/>\nMs Ho was in charge of disciplining pupils other teachers could not handle<br \/>\nSoft-spoken and sincere she approached them to win their hearts almost in total<\/p>\n<p>Teaching to impart knowledge is one easy job<br \/>\nTo help children see themselves and to be free and good is another job<br \/>\nChildren of the computer age require not information from books<br \/>\nThey must learn to know self and others to develop perspective outlooks<\/p>\n<p>I remember Ms Ho handling eight or nine difficult pupils every week<br \/>\nThere were times when she and pupil came to terms together weeped<br \/>\nI asked once why she had accepted such nervy tasks so willingly<br \/>\nShe said giving herself to teaching came only naturally<\/p>\n<p>[Before the 1997, Teachers&#8217; Day \u6559\u5e2b\u7bc0 was on September 28. After the handover to the People&#8217;s Republic of China, the day was changed to September 10, which is when the PRC celebrates the holiday &#8212; Wikipedia]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teacher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0by Kong Shiu Loon Those were years of social transition When teaching was still an admired profession Young men and women saw it as a lifelong career Helping children grow and thrive was a challenging frontier I watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,118],"tags":[116,201],"class_list":["post-13117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-poems-english","tag-sl-kong","tag-_1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13811,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}