The Teacher- Researcher - A Lecture Outline

The Teacher- Researcher - A Lecture Outline*

Dr. Abe V. Rotor

Lecture Outline on Research for 3CA1 and 3CA3, UST Faculty of Arts and Letters
February 18, 2013 Monday (3CA1 3 to 6 pm ; February 22, 2013, Friday 3CA3 9 to 12)

Lesson on former Paaralng Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio, 738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 Evening Class, Monday to Friday (Phase II 2006 to present)
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Fallen cross on a belfry ruin, Bacarra, Ilocos Norte

 
It's a kids' world: bamboo poles and Palm Sunday palaspas for sale. Quaintness of living has gone too far. 

A. Ways of Researchers

· Hook and Line
· White Gown
· “Frankenstein”
· Entrepreneur
· Continuing

B. Stages of a “Sageing”

· The Age of Becoming (adventure and discovery)
· The Age of Overcoming (mastery)
· Age of the Forthcoming (Integrity and Harmony)

. Youth – Blunder, also Opportunity
. Middle Age – Regret, also Fulfillment
. Old Age – Curse, also Wisdom

C. The ABH (Always Busy and in a Hurry) Person

· He is here and he is not here; anywhere but here.
· Often unhappy with what he has, with where he is.
· Imagines success, happiness and contentment to be external and distant
· Not physically, emotionally and spiritually involved.
· He is not living fully; he is Tomorrow’s Child.

D. The Control Freak

· He wants to be in control in everything and everyone.
· Deep inside he does not trust himself.
· Very organized but always worried.

E. The Cheerful Robot

· Afraid to take the initiative, drifts with the current
· Creature of routine
· Contented with mediocrity

F. Cynic (Frustrated Idealist)

· Incurable critic
· Always complaining
· Envious and jealous

G. The Hoarder

· He has insatiable want, forgetting what he truly needs. (Bill Gates)
· He is trapped in the fear of losing what he has.
· He needs to escape from the suffocating clutches of his possession

H. The Pleaser

· His self-image relies on public approval (KSP)
· He can’t say, NO without feeling guilty.
· He overburdens himself with promises he can’t fulfill

I. The Pretender

· He wears many masks he has forgotten his      real face.
· A jack of all trades, a master of none.

J. The Addict

· He is excessively devoted to or burdened 

  compulsively and habitually at something 

  or someone.

Begging for a seat in school painting by a Russian artist

. He is obsessed with alcohol, smoking, sex, 

  TV, computer, money, and car

 - even religion.

K. What a Professor Researcher should have

· Humility – sincerely accepting “who I am 

   and what I am doing that I can, 

  to become what God wants me to be.”
· Simplicity – focusing one’s attention on what truly matters in life.
· Integrity – (integer is whole) wholeness leads to holiness.

L. How to Live Life

1. Practice your religion. Religion is the most profound revolution.
 · Life is a journey.
 · Life is beautiful. (If you don’t see it, you will miss it.)
 · Life is precious (Don’t miss the happy moments.)
 · Life is short  (If you don’t look around, you will miss it.)
 · Breath, rest, take time out (Sabbath Day, siesta and holiday)

2. Don’t sacrifice your family on the altar of your career

3. Be prepared to experience the Crises of Limit

· Crucial periods and vulnerability
· Know the boundaries, borders and confines
· The Unfinished Business
· The crisis of bodily change. The body never lies.
· The crisis of effectiveness
· The crisis of death awareness

“Everyday I am doing something beautiful to God.” - Mother Theresa

“Totus tuus.” (Everything I do, I do for God.) - Pope John Paul II

“Don’t judge yourself with what you do, but the meaning of your work,” - Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven.

* Reference: Lecture of by Rev Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, former rector, UST in a Seminar-workshop for the Graduate School faculty, 2009.

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