Students spend about ten months,less than two hundred twenty days and more or less two thousand hours with their teacher in a usual school year and that’s possibly why teachers were able to build up some kind of a warm and parental relationship with their students but the thing is the connection between a teacher and a student is more than that of a parent and child relationship. The relationship between them can have a long lasting impact on the progression of a student.

Teachers establish several relationships with their students. They act as instructors, someone who molds the skills and minds of the students by sharing all the knowledge they saved and collected in their minds . They act as a friend, a person that every students can lean on and someone who is all ears everytime there is something that a student is having trouble with. They serve as counselors that guides the students to the right path of success and give them advice whenever they are in pinch. They also show signs of parenthood to their students because of the nonstop scolding they give to them whenever they do something inappropriate and because of their determination to lift them up whenever they are in the brink of capitulation.

According to studies developing a positive teacher student relationship is crucial for it is an important aspect of quality teaching and student learning. A true successful teacher has the ability to teach clearly with passion and was able to make a student unleash his full potential as an individual and a genuine triumphant student listens and gnaws everything that his teacher instructs. They have some kind of mutual relationship, one teaches the other to have a mature mentality while the other one teaches the other how to see the best in every people and helps improves teaching practice.

The fact that students spend more time in school means that they created a special and irreplaceable bond with their teachers. They see their teachers as an instructor, a friend, and a counselor while teachers treat them like their own child. Together they build a relationship that benfits them both. This kind of relationship serve as the students’ stepping stone in reaching their dreams and this is what pushes the teachers to work hard and surpass who they are yesterday.

It was 47 years ago when we Filipinos faced another predicament and it wasn’t because of the clutches of colonizers or foreign invaders. We were put under the rule of one man which later brought a huge impact and anguish to our society. Now free from the chains of the dictatorial regime, what exactly changed in our beloved country?

As we all know, Martial Law period is one of the dark ages of Philippines, There had been reported cases of people being tortured to death because of alleged accusations, women getting abused,  rallies being conducted everywhere and some people with high ranks abused their power and used it to oppress people. Marcos deprived the Filipinos from publishing articles that are against the government. In other words the Filipinos back then had no ways to express their opinion and suggestions about the government. They were only obliged to obey the president because following the rules was compulsory and that’s probably the reason why the Filipinos felt like they are being trapped in a cage and that they need to fight to break free. In present time with the absence of martial law we are very fortunate to be given the right to choose what is best for our country. The government is all ears to the people’s wishes, needs and desires and everyone has the freedom to express themselves verbally and nonverbally.

Despite of Martial law being known as a notorious era, Little did many know that the early years of it are considered as the golden age of the Philippines according to some people, for that time the Philippines had what it takes to compete with other more civilized countries. In that time we were able to build several infrastructure, all roads didn’t have a single peck of trash , programs such as Rice and Roads program were executed and percentage of poverty and crime decreased. It also turns out that the Filipinos during the martial law are more disciplined because of the rules that were implemented that time.

As what we have observed, the relationship between Marcos and the Filipinos is somewhat similar to a father and child relationship with the father being strict and bossy and not letting his son do what he wants without his permission and whenever the child disobeys him he disciplines him in the way that the child would never had the guts to disobey him again. Having that kind of father was truly excrutiating but thanks to that the children became more disciplined and meticulous to their actions. Now without that kind of father the children became more and more impulsive. With democracy at its finest some Filipinos have forgotten that there is a limit on being free and that they need to draw a line at doing frivolous actions. The government itself doesn’t have the teeth to make the people follow the rules necessary to mantain peace and order. Without the strict implementation of rules, no matter how beneficial those rules are in our country, as long as the Filipinos refuse to follow it would all be futile.

Like what Heraclitus said, “The only constant in life is change” no matter how bad or good that change would turn out, and no matter how dark the situation before that change came we should always remember that there is always a beauty in everything and behind every negative scenarios there is an equal positive feedback.

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