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.
interesting. link me to sir pat’s post please. hehe.
Fixed the Sir Pat’s post part in the original post. I didn’t know that tag was butchered. It’s there now.