My personal experience will impart an important lesson: The need to know that one day you will be forced to stand up for your rights. And you must stand firm and unshaky for your principles.

When I was schooling for my graduate studies, one of my subjects was handled by a very kind professor whose class was very unruly. Most of my classmates were very noisy and disrespectful during class lecture. Most of them literally turned their backs on the professor who was explaining the lessons to the class. I was expecting that those graduate students would behave better than elementary schoolers but to my disbelief, they did not.

My professor was very intelligent and patient but this only encouraged her unruly students to continue with what they were doing for she did not chide them about their behavior. I hated that scene but at the same time I pitied her. I asked her once why she never called their attention, but instead of replying to me, she just smiled. I did not prolong our conversation.

However, I am an assertive lady and I do not tolerate arrogant behavior. The situation I saw was more of an abusive attitude done by immature adults who were in school to increase their education, but to me, they should have gone back to their primary years as schoolers to absorb smartly the lessons taught on good manners and right conduct.

With that in mind, I made sure that I would call their attention to the kind of misbehavior they exhibited but I needed the right time to do that.

Right timing came when our kind professor required us to render class report, individually. That was a chance for me to stand up before the class and speak my mind on something that I think was just, to correct a culture of "class untouchable". Those disrespectful students were either wives of prominent politicians or members of prominent families. That did not deter me for I was standing for the rights of other students too who were afraid to call their attention.

When my turn to report was called, I expected that they would ignore me too, like what they were accustomed to. But I told myself that there is no way I would allow them to insult me in front of the class. No way!

As I stood in front of them and distributed the necessary papers for my reportage to each one of them, I politely greeted them with a smile. I started to ensure that I have their complete attention.

Before I explained to them what I was going to report in class, I told them that

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