Don't Even Try!!!

Would like to take a few minutes to pen my feelings. Was feeling a little down due to many things that seem to be happening to my dept, though I was not directly involved in it, but somehow can feel that my fellow colleagues are very stressed.

Why? I would rather not speculate here as it may be due to other issues rather than what I thought, but somehow, the “unhappiness” seems to be cascading down to me and I am also feeling it.

Been a long time seem I really had real contact with my students. I remember when the dept was started, I was so closed to my students that they will approach me for chatting, for help, or just looking for a listening ears but now, it looks like lecturer are more concerned with projects, with trying to make an impact to higher authority so that they will be duly rewarded. Where is the basis of being a teacher? Where is that so called passion when they first join the teaching line?

I was commenting to my daughter that we should never allow people to go into teaching, just to try it out. Their “trying” may sometimes kill the interest of the students and would destroy him for life.

I remember that one of the main reasons why I had never ever able to pick up Chinese was because when I was in primary school, my Chinese teacher saw one toy protruding out of my pocket, cannot remember what it was, and snatch it then smack my head with it!!! It left me with a great fear for Chinese teachers and I can never recover from this fail and had never ever passed my Chinese all the way to “O” level.

Can you imagine what damages can a “trying” teacher left behind before he/she quit the teaching line? It may be too late for some of these kids. So, to my readers, unless you really have a passion for teaching, don’t even try going in just to have a taste of teaching life. By not “trying” you may have “saved” some of these kids life.