Students and Teachers

"Students come to school to torture teachers"

What a true statement and a sad one.

Chambers Dictionary:
torture
   n the infliction of severe pain esp as a means of punishment or persuasion; extreme physical or mental pain; a cause of this; anguish.

This blog post is inspired by this blog post by Mr. Woon, a teacher blogger, knew him from church since I was a boy.



I really admire teachers who are serious about their vocation, they are contributing to society by bringing up a younger generation to contribute to society. It is, I am convinced, a tough job being a teacher. Teaching is not easy, what more educating? Moreover young people nowadays are becoming so difficult to teach, we as students are more rebellious, resourceful, stubborn, and less hardworking compared to our parents when they were studying. To a certain extent I would say that some of us are even rascals in school, always giving teachers a hard time.

By defying school rules, we give teachers a headache because they usually get it from the principal first before we get the scolding. So teachers are often put in difficult positions, being held responsible for their students' faults sometimes.
By doing badly in monthly tests and examinations, we students again give our teachers a hard time because their ability in teaching may be questioned although the cause of our low grades might solely be due to our own lack of discipline and time management.
So, students torture teachers.

Besides the apparent "sufferings" that teachers go through because of their students, I can see a whole new level of torturous experiences which the type of teachers I admire, face. See, when you care for a person, you rejoice when the person is happy; and you feel down when he or she is sad. Teachers who genuinely care for their students are filled with empathy for them, I believe. So when students are fooling around in school, they torture the teachers who love them, just as disobedient children hurt their parents. This is one bad thing about being a teacher, and one bad thing about love: The people you love are the ones who hurt and torture you the most.

However things are different for teachers who are not serious in teaching. I detest such people, for going into the teaching ministry for reasons other than educating and equipping the leaders of tomorrow. They are an eyesore to me, wasting the government's(the people's)(the nation's) resources! Worse still, raising a generation of people in the wrong way, thus acting like a stumbling stone towards the development of the country.
No heart for teaching yet become teachers for personal gains, no shame.

Well, teachers who do not care much for their students suffer less.
Which kind of teacher do you want to be if you want to be a teacher?

"Bad students go to school to torture teachers,

bad teachers go to school to torture the nation"