I must honestly confess that when I was at High School, I had superb teachers who knew - and still do I bet... - a hell of a lot about their subjects. Regretably not all of them knew well how to share their passion towards their expertise areas. Hence, in many of them, we were sort of compel to cram for the finals, pass and say a big "goodbye forever" to those subjects that were just like maps full of treasures that needed to be unfold and decyphered.
God only know whether that classmate of mine who used to perform astonishingly well in Maths and Chemistry could have ever ended up as an astronaut? If he would just have come across the right teacher capable of pressing the right button... If he would have just been helped to discover the potential and the applications in our everyday lives of Mathematics or Chemistry instead of seeing those sciences as plain subjects he was to pass to move on... Who knows? No one will ever know now...
This is the reason why, as a prospective teacher, I will make my best to share my passion to Modern Foreign Languages to my students, to unveil the wonders of the worlds that would open wide if they approach a foreign language, to make them aware of how big the world is beyond their comfort area... I want to be sure that those who will eventually decide that foreign languages are not for them in their future, at least, would have had a deep experience to the tons of satisfaction that mastering a language - and becoming familiar to the culture it comprises - encompasses.
I do want to educate and instruct future generations who can freely make their own informed decisions. The future is theirs and theirs is the responsability to upgrade the future of the upcoming generations. Their lives, their future, our mission. I cherish the hope that someday I will become a teacher who can give the chance to my students to love Modern Foreign Languages just as much as I do.
Dreaming big is just the first step to take.
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