I would be the last person to demand an apology from Osang for dissing the teachers. Not that I'm not sympathetic with the teachers. Hello, I'm an education student, a future teacher. How could I not be sympathetic with them? It's just that part of what she said is true. (Admit it or not, there are teachers who just "repeat what was taught to them," to use Osang's words, who use test papers older than my niece...)
And you don't castigate a person for telling the truth, do you? Unless you are Rizal's prosecutors.
What then should teachers do? Nothing.
Teachers are public figures and as such, they may, to use Justice Malcom's words, "suffer under a hostile and an unjust accusation." But "the wound can be assuaged with the balm of a clear conscience. A public officer must not be too thin-skinned with reference to comment upon his official acts. Only thus can the intelligence and dignity of the individual be exalted."
