Who are you people?

Today, I went out. That alone is surprising, seeing as I am sort of a giant recluse after going home and staying there for more than an hour. Slightly more surprising is that I don’t know who these people were.

Meeting my friends’ friends never was a remarkable thing for me, seeing as most of them either dislike me just because or think I’m a predator trying to gobble them up in one fell swoop of sarcasm and dry wit (either it’s the glasses, the clutched book and/or the “serious” look). As predicted, I was correct and they didn’t even talk to me, so I just sank down the couch and read my book, nodding occasionally at some hilarious puns (it sucked) somewho tries to run. I can’t be blamed though, I did try to respond, but the overwhelming silence afterwards was just too much to bear repeatedly and still have some dignity left intact.

Also, one particular person even resorted to use taunts aimed at me. Fascinating.

I guess you can’t please everybody. I should have stayed home; I wouldn’t have had to feel guilty about being an inadequate participant, with a bonus of watching more House M.D. or 30Rock.

As a sidenote to those of you wondering why I’ve even wrote this in the first place is that they would never read my blog anyways. Heh.

On Learning

In reply to Sir Pat’s post, and in my own experience as a student, these kind of teachers produce negative output from an allegedly (self-proclaimed) good input. Either the students learn nothing, or learn so little that it’s almost useless, yet, the students pass. It’s a waste of money, and frankly, a waste of the student’s time as well. How else are the students going to apply what they were supposed to teach? You might as have given them their OJTs and left them on it with not even the intention of making them better individuals.

In my mind, teachers are there to stimulate young minds and guide people on how to apply their knowledge in the real world. If you just bombard a student with knowledge (whether related or totally off target) and expect them to understand, either of three things may happen: the student learns from the experience and gets the healthy habit of reinforcing the knowledge given to them; fails miserably, gains trauma and repeats; or self-studies to catch up and gain the wrong information. With proper guidance, you can at most eliminate two of these scenarios and teach students to gain the love for learning. A person learning to curse himself for his/her weakness will make an ill prepared individual indeed.

Hopefully, if my plans get through, I would remember what I wrote and be the best teacher I can be, even if it may be just for a short time (?).

Oh, and yeah. Nothing happened today, other than my continued yearning to watch Cloverfield. Hopefully on Tuesday, the movie will be shown at last.

Back to Blogging

Yup. I’m back.

I’m starting to blog again, but this time, hopefully, I begin to write better posts than those below this one. So either something interesting happens or there was none.

Here’s hoping.