Ever since I began my teaching career 21 years ago, I have been embracing this quote 💬:

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ✨

For many years, I found myself torn between teaching content 📚 and teaching life 💛 in the classroom. Teaching young learners often means that the academic content is manageable—but classroom management, attending to learners’ needs, disciplining, guiding, listening, and caring take up most of the time 🧠🤲. There were moments when this made me feel sad 😔, even inadequate, as if I wasn’t doing “enough teaching.”

But returning to this quote helped me pause and see things more clearly 🌤️.

I realised that everything I do in the classroom is education 🌱. Every reminder, every act of patience, every boundary set with kindness, every moment of care—these are lessons too 💫. They may not appear in a syllabus 📄, but they shape hearts ❤️, habits 🌼, and humanity 🌍.

I am not failing when I teach life alongside content.

I am not wasting time when I pause to guide, correct, or comfort 🤍.

I am a teacher 👩‍🏫.

And in every moment, in every way, I am always teaching ✨📚