A World Full of Gold

I am a bit in a rest mode this week, as it is semestral break in the University right now and I am getting some rare moments in front of the computer monitor, as the short vacation allows me some free time to surf as I want to be, or play games for longer hours.

Teaching is such a full-time job, even though my position is far from being one—- and even the pay. One has to breathe and live the job, from the moment one wakes up in the morning, till the night ends near midnight. Not that I am complaining; I just mean to say is that this vocation fills my days like a glassful of water and I live through it, like a fish in the water.

Maybe such is the teacher, to be thorough in the job, to be as dedicated as ever, to be animated and to be passionate about it all. Without these things, there’d be no such thing as a good and complete education.

Now that I have all the time to think as much as I want to think, I still think about the words and expressions I relay to the students while in the classroom, one of which was about economics and how things becomes valuable and how they earn that value.

I had referred to stones and gold in the “International Economics” subject I teach my third year students. I asked the students one time to imagine a world full of gold, glistening all around, beneath our feet, and seen where every eyes could see, then most probably a kilo of gold would not be worth a dime. And every monument would be made of gold, shining like the sun, and most probably stones would be in every rich person’s bodice, as jewelries would you believe. Or in short, that’s how the law of supply and demand works. The student could not help but smirk; I could not help that too.

And I was also saying about how a nation becomes like a sari-sari store; the store who sells more merchandise and buys less, would most likely be an economically sound store—- rich and progressive. Or like a house, where the household should apply the best economics ever known, allocating resources in the wisest manner, for if a house spends more than it earns, it is a crumbling house.

Often, teaching these college subjects do not only make the student academically proficient but could allow them to learn practicality in life, as they progress along towards the future that awaits them. That’s what I think.