If you are a teacher in a secondary school — whether they are underpaying you, overloading you, or treating you like spare furniture in the staff room — never joke with your mastery of the subject you teach. That is your weapon, your crown, your escape route.
Your true strength is when you can boldly say, “From primary one to SS3, in my subject, there is no topic I cannot handle.”
Walk into any classroom with your head high and tell your students, “Ask me anything.” Not for pride, but because you have sharpened yourself so much that even Google will respect you.
Be so good that when you attend an interview, the panel will start nodding before you even finish the first answer. Be so sound that if you leave your current school today, ten other schools will be waiting at your gate with offers, pleading like suitors, “Please come and teach for us.” Let your excellence make them pray for you to resign — not out of malice, but out of hunger for your value.
The truth? Mastery is freedom. Salaries can delay, proprietors can misbehave, school owners can sh0ut, but your skill will always open doors that gossip can’t close. If you are truly good, you’ll never be stranded — you’ll only be chased, and not by debt collectors… but by opportunity.
So, teach with all your heart. Study like your students’ future depends on it — because it does. Learn something new daily. Research better methods. Practise until even the hardest question feels like cutting bread with a h0t knife. The more you teach, the sharper you become.
And remember… the best way to learn is to teach.
The best way to remain relevant is to be so good they can’t ignore you —
and the sweetest revenge on bad treatment… is becoming the teacher they can’t replace.
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