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Principal's Writing Corner

Hope for the Best

Last year, we put forward “Kindness” as the theme of the year, reminding all
of us to be kind to self as well as others, from individuals to community and the
environment, from the living place we live to the country and the global world
we belong. For the reasons that “Kindness in words creates CONFIDENCE.
Kindness in thinking creates PROFOUNDNESS. Kindness in giving creates
LOVE!” (Plato), we have to pass this good virtue on!

This year, we have chosen “Hope” as the main theme for character
building. We believe that when people have hope, they can be nurtured with
positive thinking. They will know well what they want to do in future. They might
have a clear vision to be realized and they can bring hope to others. They can
share love and make peace with people. With hope, everyone in this school
can strive for one’s best and each of us can learn happily together, develop
one’s own strengths, love one another and enjoy being loved!

By definition, with reference to Oxford Dictionary, “Hope” is a feeling of
expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen, a feeling of trust. It is
the state of mind that believes and desires a positive outcome to situations
in your life. It is the feeling that things will turn out for the best. It is a lifestyle
where one consistently looks forward to that positive outcome to something
planned in life.

When I was at your age studying in primary school, my school teachers
used to ask us to write something about our “Hope”, as a writing exercise in
composition. Well, after so many years, I can’t recall exactly what I wrote by
then. Probably it was something like: “I hope I can be a brave knight who can
fight for my country and protect my people;” or “I hope I can be a doctor some
day because I can help people to restore health;” or “I hope that I can be much
knowledgeable one day and be a professor in the university who can pass on
knowledge and culture.” But if I were asked to write the same topic today, I
would like to write something like below:

Example 1:
My hope is to be one of the humble professional teachers who is kind and
caring. I shall take every pupil as my own child. I shall prepare my lessons well
and let them learn in sheer joy. I shall help develop each child and let each one
find out his or her own strengths and potentials. I believe that education can
change the destiny of each child. I hope that with good teaching, I can shed
lights to others like fireflies so that people around me can share my hope and
they can further share their good deeds and become fireflies, too. I also hope
that all pupils can receive equal opportunities in learning and they can develop
their potentials to their full.

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