Reaction Paper #2: ENOUGH REASON TO LIVE

I agree with the columnist, as a good citizen of our country, we should be single
mindedly aspire to become a true republic. For me, what we direly need are statesmen,
inspiring leaders whose formative foundations include philosophy. As our founding
fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our nation was
committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.
Throughout our history, our most honorable heroes practiced the values of hard work
and honesty, commitment to excellence and courage, and self-discipline and
perseverance.

In a multitude of ways, including modeling, the manager in all aspects in a

broader sense shapes ethical conduct and the ethical agency. Workforce diversity,
alternate recruitment channels, mixed administrative settings, and collaborative
relationships, figure prominently among todays challenges. Public managers are doers
and deciders including we as teachers; that is the crux of our job. Ethics is first,
foremost, and finally about conduct. The upshot is that a passion for action is preferred
over personal introspection, and this necessarily means dealing with other people. A
public classroom teachers primary ethical concern is behavior toward to all stakeholders
especially to learners. Service recipients are important today because of the surge in
social services, the injection of equity and compassion by the public teachers, and the
responsiveness concerns associated with public management and service are very
much important such as helping learners to become a responsible citizen by molding
and shaping their characters, values, thoughts, actions, reactions and feelings. Building
a strong character on them that show compassion, honesty and fairness, helping them
to become self-discipline so that they can make good judgments, show respect to
others and courage in standing up for their beliefs, that makes them good citizens who
are concerned for their community, and maintain self-respect to elders and toward
others.

Today, as we work to preserve peace and freedom all over the country, we are
guided by a national character that respects human dignity and values every life. I
believe that the leader as individual is the proper lens through which we must
understand. Unfortunately, most of the time, I am seriously disappointed in the
personality assessments of our leaders because of personal, and underlying personality
motives. I believe every individuals personality matters for what he does. The notion of
self-interest and strategic leadership resembles to my idea that our present leaders and
their policies posits different institutional incentives and disincentives presented to
constitutionalists are the real cause of what we define as tyrannical and public-spirited
leadership. It is a sad fact that the strategic ambition of the administrators and leaders
to gain political power, and the competitive nature of office-seeking institutionalizes their
human desire which for me causes chaos and disruptions and misunderstanding/.

According to Nelson Mandela, a philanthropist, Success of human freedom is

never guaranteed, because there is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us
will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we
reach the mountain tops of our desires." However, I believe that transformative
statesmanship will continue to be exercised as long as men continue to believe that
chance to human freedom is not indifferent to human greatness, action is followed by
good fortune, and people desire great leadership. As Abraham Lincoln reminds us, that
despite the constraints imposed on political office, leaders with greater aspirations than
to serve in an office will arise. Faced with mounting crises, if we put our energy and
dedication toward noble purposes in the service of the common good challenge us and
elevate our commitment towards to become morally upright for me had not yet been
realized by all people.

As an ordinary citizen of this country, how I wish, just like Martin Luther King, I
can see my children one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
of their skin but by the content of their character.

ANGELA DOMINIQUE T. LOMAGDONG

Student