i promised hsin i'll update.
well. ok. anyway. i just woke up. bathed. after this i'm gonna study.
haha. (:
yesterdae i watched this documentary about a teacher in hk.
she is such a good teacher dat she went on tv lah. u see her students crying in front of the tv as they remember the things she taught them. revealed the meaningful things she gave to them. everything. every present dat this teacher gave had a meaning.
she was a literature teacher. chinese i tink. toks bout society and everything.
she said dat youngsters now were like bonsai trees. u see bonsai trees are really pretty cause they twist the twigs and twine them around other twigs until as if they are full of 'attitude' and style.
but the thing is that this is not a natural movement. youngsters nowadays are forced to do things. we cannot do wat we want to do anymore. and excel in wat we want to do anymore.
and she said dat technology is advancing really rapidly nowadays. when she teaches in the lecture hall, she sees all her students glued to the screen. she is really old lah. and she says that wat she worries the most is. where is the teacher?
if everyone in the lecture hall only glues their eyes to the screen, then where is the teacher?
some mite be able to say dat the teacher created this slides. but she says that no. this is scary. i can be standing here in this big lecture hall and nobody sees me. i'm useless. but that's not wat a teacher's role is. it's when a teacher talks and she sees the questionable looks on her students face. the immediate ans she tries to give to clear their doubts. dat second of interaction btwn teacher and student. that is the important part.
she says dat as a teacher, she can see a student sleeping rite there at a corner, or another student day dreaming at another corner. her duty is to try her best to make these students listen for at least one second, one minute. just awhile. even if it is only a few seconds. there is still something to be learnt. and the student still has learnt something frm the lesson.
and she goes on tokin bout this mr tang who really influenced her life.
how mr tang cared for her. how through his words and quotes she has lead her life.
i can't remember the quotes cause i do not really understand them. it's in literaturery chinese.haha.
how she kept this skarf dat mr tang gave her when she left hk to go to the cold japan to keep her warm. how she was so stopid as to not bring anything to keep herself warm. but mr tang remembered.
and she also toked bout how teachers have a really hard job nowadays.
and it would become harder and harder to be a teacher as the time passes.
she says that now. no matter wat a teacher does. he/she is wrong.
in the past, when there were not so many ou xiang sorta ppl. u noe...5566 and wateva.
ppl used to admire teachers. admire how they taught wat they knew bout life and everything.
i tink i shld stop blabbering. u ppl must be getting soper bored.
haha.
M O O