Today was no different from other days of my nearly fifty years of teaching
Classes were no different from other semesters
My first class started at noon
And it was my teaching time
The next class was at afternoon with the full moon
I slowly walk to the Western Hemispheric Trade Center Building
It has a typical crowd because of the budget cut
A class of the usual mixed students with tilting
Some were silent, couple boys and girls were busy gazing on each other
And the rest acknowledged my arrival.
When I started my lecture, still those couple students were talking
Several other students became attentive to my philosophy, biosophy, technososophy, and ecosophy
They tried to catch my intellectual drifting.
As I passed from ontological to tautological and axiological reasoning then,
all students except a couple boyfriend and girlfriend voiced and demanded to be heard
Brought the whole class to attention with a booming intonation
They asked their question: Will this stuff be on the exams?
How could I respond? I thought to myself
Should I be encephalized, and drift myself to the shore of professional passion?
Or should I get mad?
Should I be indignant, or should I get sad?
To my own conscience surprise
To my own syllogistic reasoning, I responded to my own answer
Should them be included on the exams, or completely leave them out of the context
It is totally up to me to include them on exams
We are all here to enhance our mind in essence
Since you have graced me with your presence
The exams should be about what is related to the reality of life
I have examined your knowledge what you already have learned
On the other hand, I should examine you what you have not heard
No matter how critically have you utilized your mind with knowledge?
It is only related to your real life.
No matter that they may be very useful or not
The knowledge that I am bestowing you is related to your very existence
The exams as you know should be about trivial
Now you told me that o’ the one that has sense of survival
Should they remain in your mind or to go?
Should all contents be on your exams?