Ethiopia: Requiem for a Noble Profession

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The teaching profession deserves the adjective 'noble'. which is why we usually hear people defining it as a noble profession. For those of us who are older, our thoughts go back to perhaps the first village school, most likely the schools run by the clergy assisted by monitors, where the senior ones try to teach junior and fresh students. In my case, there were several of them near and around Bale Wold, itself a school, in the proximity of the Holy Trinity Cathedral.

But the nobel profession should be utilised at home. If teaching is like opening a door of darkness on a hall without windows or a torch light, then there is no one better fit for it than a mother. Let us think about our own childhoods. From the time we are infants to the moment we become toddlers, our parents take turns teaching us to learn the simple lessons of life.

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