Teachers and Apeng Daldal

Sabi ko na nga ba. Teachers are the pinakadaldal in the world New research shows teachers spend nearly a fourth of their time at work talking—not including the silent pauses between words. “Professional voice users make up about a quarter of the U.S. population,” said Eric Hunter, an acoustician with the National Center for Voice and Speech at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. “That includes singers and telemarketers, but one of the biggest chunks is teachers.” And voice loss shouldn’t be taken lightly. “About 40 percent of teachers report losing their voice sometime during their career,” he said, a dilemma costing taxpayers $2.5 billion each year in substitute teacher wages, sick pay and other expenses.