OF dit nou vir die melk van \u2019n koei is, die inenting van \u2019n siek skaap of die plant van groente, jy kan maar weet dat jy Estie Wagner (50) \u00f3f in haar klaskamer \u00f3f in die tuin sal aantref.<\/p>\n
Want di\u00e9 oud-boervrou se besigheid is om leerders meer oor landbou te leer. En as jy \u2019n boer ken, sal jy weet dat jy sy diere so goed soos sy kinders moet behandel, anders is daar moei-likhied.<\/p>\n
Wagner is die afgelope vier jaar \u2019n onderwy-seres by die Patensie Landbou Ho\u00ebrskool, maar sy het dit nie aldag maklik gehad nie.<\/p>\n
Sy het harde klippe gekou om te kom waar sy vandag is. Hoewel sy presies weet hoe swaarkry en te\u00ebspoed proe, spog Wagner vandag met haar B.Ed-graad (honeurs) van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (Unisa) \u2013 al was dit by tye dol en is penne stukkend gekou van spanning.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is op my knie\u00eb dankbaar dat ek my universiteitsloopbaan suksesvol kon voltooi,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n
Die pad tot by haar gradeplegtigheid was egter nie \u2019n maklike een nie. <\/p>\n
En beslis nie een waaroor di\u00e9 kunstenaar as klein dogtertjie gedroom het nie. <\/p>\n
Onderwys was nooit deel van haar lewensplan nie. Dit was iets wat jare later vir h\u00e1\u00e1r gekies het . . .<\/p>\n
Wagner, voormalige eienaar van die bekende Salem-pottebakkery in die Vrystaat, en haar man, het in 1993 hul skaap- en beesplaas op Vredefort verkoop en na Humansdorp verhuis \u2013 slegs een jaar na hulle getroud is.<\/p>\n
Niks kon haar vooraf op die besluit en veranderinge voorberei nie.<\/p>\n
In plaas van \u2019n groener toekoms, het werkloosheid en armoede hulle vierkantig in die gesig gestaar.<\/p>\n
Moed opgee was nie \u2019n opsie nie.<\/p>\n
Met slegs \u2019n verweerde sambreel teen die bloedige son en re\u00ebn, het die egpaar groente op die straathoeke van Humansdorp ver-koop.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit was bloedsweet-jare,\u201d s\u00ea Wagner. <\/p>\n
Los werkies het sporadies oor haar pad gekom, en in 2003 sluit sy as Graad R-onderwyse-res by die Cockscomb Prim\u00eare Skool aan. <\/p>\n
Wagner frons liggies: \u201cSonder die regte kwa-lifikasie, was die maandelike vergoeding skraps \u2013 slegs R500.\u201d<\/p>\n
H\u00ed\u00e9r het oud-skoolhoof Sithelwa Maseti haar inspireer om verder te studeer.<\/p>\n
Totale waansinnigheid op die ouderdom van 45, volgens Wagner wat in 2010 as \u2019n onderwys-student by Unisa aangesluit het.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk kan nie eens beskryf hoe moeilik dit was nie . . . Dit vat harde werk en toewyding om \u2019n graad klaar te maak, veral as jy nie meer jonk is nie,\u201d s\u00ea Wagner wat slegs saans kon studeer.<\/p>\n
Deur die dag het sy steeds skool gegee, en tussen deur koeke vir \u2019n ekstra inkomste verkoop.<\/p>\n
Die harde werk en deursettingsvermo\u00eb het vrugte afgewerp en sy het haar B.Ed-graad in 2015 verwerf.<\/p>\n
In 2016 sluit sy as onderwyseres by die Patensie Landbou Ho\u00ebrskool, voorheen bekend as die Patensie Senior Sekond\u00eare Skool, aan waar sy Lanbou Bestuurpraktyk vir Graad 10 tot 12 leerders gee.<\/p>\n
Di\u00e9 vak sluit beide teorie en prakties in: onder meer hoe om \u2019n koei te melk en die aanl\u00ea van \u2019n groentetuin. Asook die ver-koop van groente. Die skool spog tans met wortels, blomkool, kool, spinasie en uie.<\/p>\n
Drie jaar later verwerf sy haar B.Ed-graad (honeurs), onder aanmoediging van haar seun, Jaco Wagner (23), wat verlede jaar sy B.Ed-graad voltooi het.<\/p>\n
Vandag verruil Wagner, wat onlangs na Hankey verhuis het, haar beroep vir geen ander nie.<\/p>\n
En haar doktorsgraad?<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het nou vir eers klaar studeer,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n
Sy hoop dat ander inspirasie uit haar storie kan put en besef wat met harde werk verrig kan word.<\/p>\n
\u201cJy is nooit te oud om te leer of om jou drome te bereik nie,\u201d s\u00ea Wagner wat glo dat met deursettingsvermo\u00eb, harde werk en iemand wat in jou glo, enigeen hul grootste droom kan bewaarheid. <\/p>\n
\u201cGeleerdheid is die sleutel tot jou sukses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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