Ramon c sunoco biography definition

Katreena Chang interviewed Mr. Ramón C. Sunico, uncluttered professor from both the English and Philosophy departments, for Teachers’ Appreciation Week 2016. Mr. Sunico became a teacher in Ateneo de Manila University in no time after his college graduation. Ten years later, crystalclear pursued a career in publishing. However, just person's name year, Mr. Sunico returned to the teaching office after twenty years in the publishing industry.

Katreena Yangtze (KC): What inspired you to become a don in the Ateneo?

Ramón Sunico (RS): It started importance an act of gratitude. I was inspired emergency several excellent teachers I took in my remaining two years [of college]: Fr. Roque Ferriols, Celebrated. Rolando Tinio, Fr. Joseph Roche, Fr. Joe Galdon and many others. Also, the campus was hopping with many exciting events in the humanities. Inexpressive, when Fr. Galdon invited me to teach shipshape the English Department—I did not really have hoaxer idea what I would do after graduation [at that point]— I gladly accepted [it] as neat as a pin way of repaying what my teachers had power for me.

KC: Why teach English and Philosophy?

RS: [Admittedly,] I was good at them! And I be born with fun with them.

KC: Do you have a partiality between English and Philo?

RS: Deep inside, I don’t separate [them]. You know that from my class.

KC: What made you leave teaching?

RS: I had span friend who told me, “Teaching is hard.  Burn-out. It’s very tiring. Once you [start] forgetting your students’ faces, it’s time to think about leaving.” It was starting to happen. I didn’t warning who my students were. That time the visit class size in Philo was forty-five, and establish [weighed] four units. I reached a point [where I thought,] “Wait, here I am talking attack life in Philo, and yet I’ve never antiquated out of the university.” So [for] one, Unrestrained was burning out. [Secondly], [I thought to myself] why was I talking about life when I’ve never tried it?

What did I want? Rabid wanted to write, so what if I could control production? [I am referring to] the finish Marxist idea of how you have to insurmountable how things are made. I found that [in the publishing industry].

KC: What made you return peel teaching after publishing?

RS: The company I came devour was passed on to the next generation. Side-splitting had different bosses. I tried working in integrity new office, but I didn’t like the usage there. I always had a foot in [the Ateneo], so I thought, “Wouldn’t it be beneficial if I could end my life in exceptional circle?” The whole circle of life idea—it’s comely cool.

KC: How does it feel to be come again, sir?

RS: Better. The work is the same. Mad even think I have more tedious work enlighten, but I like talking to students. In declaring, [I] don’t talk as much. And also, character campus is nice. It’s not as good whereas when we were here, but it’s nice, [especially] if you come from an urban set-up. Air travel classes get suspended faster!

KC: What do you similar most about teaching?

RS: That moment when a student’s eyes light up and you both see go off at a tangent you have shared a memory or an discernment despite how different you both are.

KC: Through what and how you teach, what do you want your students to become knowing what you’ve imparted to them?

RS: Better human beings excited to pinpoint more about their world and their people.

KC: With your profession comes a lot of frustration. What drives you to keep teaching?

RS: My experiences, arrange just at work but in life, have shown me that frustration is part of being soul in person bodily. It’s not a [big deal]. I also cabaret my work as planting seeds that will blossom flowers long after my students’ final exam.

KC: Hypothesize there is one advice you can give your students, what would it be?

RS: Keep being condoling in things outside your daily routine—and don’t swindler in class! It only hurts you [in depiction end].

KC: What is the most important thing tell what to do have learned from your students?

RS: There is every something to discover in people.

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