Rethink rethink and rethink....
Teacher- An ambition that i have held on to for at least 4 yrs. I found great pleasure in educating the younger one and imparting knowledge and experience to them. It is quite fulfilling and no doubt a very meaningful job. But, teaching in PJC for roughly 2 months, i realise i may need to rethink my career option. The teaching experience is great, get to manage the class and try out different methods to make them assimilate what i have taught them. But, it get kind of mundane for example, to go through the same single worksheet 9 times in a week and manage to memorise every single value and answers by the 6 lesson. Also, there are a lot of admin matters that teacher need to work on as well, such as compiling questions. OMG... seriously dread this. Need to go through every school papers and copy and paste plus aligning. To make things worst, the formatting varies from school to school and it sucks. If being a teacher means to teach and guide student alone, i will gladly accept it. But time changes, now even the teacher must be adept at multi-tasking. Argh.... thank goodness i nvr try applying for teaching scholarship and get myself bonded. LOL!!! This seriously cannot be my life...
Ok, more serious note, sometimes i wondered, which teachers actually left the deepest impression in me and what about them that is worth remembering and admiring. Throughout for academic studies, i never really met a teacher that is worth admiring ( It is veyr very hard for me to admire someone), but there is this teacher which i find impressive. He is my guitar teacher. He is in his early 50s i think. It is not the skills that impressed me, but the passion for teaching and most importantly, the passion for music. He has his own set of firm belief system for music and when he preach about his own philosophy, it just amazed me. I explain a bit here, in this world, it is hard to find someone that has a strong passion towards something and even if a particular person got a strong passion, it will tend to succumb to societal pressure, peer pressure or some other form of pressure that makes u the abnormalities. Hence, to be able to brave through all these pressure, one need to establish a firm belief system base on his passion. And true enough, my teacher got this characteristics. The world dont appreciate abnormalities and mavericks, but most of the time, these are the kind of people that will emerge as the successful one.
