Chapter 1: You, The Teacher, As A Person in Society
Chapter 1: You, The Teacher, As A Person in Society
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The Teaching Profession
Introduction
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Transcendent because they are beyond changing times, beyond space and
people.
They remain to be a value even if no one values them.
They are accepted as value everywhere.
On the other hand, the relativists claim that there are no universal and
unchanging values.
They assert that values are dependent on time and place.
The values that our forefathers believed in are not necessarily the right values
for the present.
What the British consider as values are not necessarily considered values by
Filipinos.
Your value formation in essence is a training of your intellect and will, your
cognitive and rational appetitive power, respectively.
Your intellect discerns a value and presents it to the will as a right or wrong
value. Your will wills to act on the right value and wills to avoid the wrong
value presented by your intellect.
As prescribed by St. Thomas Aquinas. “The intellect proposes and the will
disposes”.
It is clear that “nothing is willed unless it is first known ”. Thought must
precede the deliberation of the will.
An object is willed as it is known by the intellect and proposed to the will as
desirable and good.
Hence, the formal and adequate object of the will is good as apprehended by
the intellect”.
These statements underscore the importance of the training of your intellect.
Your intellect must clearly present a positive value to be a truly positive value
to the will not as one that is apparently positive but in the final analysis is a
negative value.
In short, your intellect must be enlightened by what is true.
It is therefore, necessary that you develop your intellect in its three functions,
namely: “formation of ideas, judgement and reasoning”
It is also equally necessary that you develop your will so you will be strong
enough to act on the good and avoid the bad that your intellect presents.
How can your will be trained to desire strongly the desirable and act on it?
William Kelly explains it very simply:
Training of the will must be essentially self-training. The habit of yielding to
impulse results in the enfeeblement of self-control. The power of inhibiting
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