Mayor Estrada hails teachers

Manila Mayor Joseph Ejercito Estrada. EDWIN BACASMAS/INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada urged the city’s public school teachers to be active peace agents during a forum held at city hall on Tuesday.

According to Estrada, teachers do not only develop the youth’s academic skills but also “cultivate in their young minds the value of keeping peace and abhorring any forms of conflicts.”

At “The Struggle for Just and Lasting Peace” forum held by the Manila Public School Teachers Association, he said that teachers who “represent the best of the Manileño” excel as “educators.”

At the same time, Estrada also urged them to “excel as advocates for students and teachers rights and welfare, and as responsible citizens doing their share for the cause of peace.”