Happy Teachers' Day!

Happy Teachers' Day to every teacher reading this post. Thanks for always being there when we need you.

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. ~Donald D. Quinn

Teaching is a really difficult job, some pupils are the:

1) Smart type

2) Smart but unwilling to work (me)

3)Middle range

4)Lower range

5)Lower range which has a i-am-here-because-i-need-to attitude to school

6)Remaining falls into the MISSING LINK

Plus all the trouble that is going to give you, about 30 to 40 scripts need to be marked every time you give the class a piece of work. The small consolation is that you have the answer script. ;)

To pupils under any teacher: You know how stressful the job is, don't make it any more difficult.

Courtesy How much are we really lacking?

Let's take this as an example, you are having a drink at a hawker centre while waiting for a few friends. Then, a old man just sits down without asking you if anyone is sitting there. How rude is that? And you can't possibly order him out of it because he is an elderly person who is not really able to move around that well.

People say that youngsters in this age are unhelpful, not generous etc... to the rest of the society. I beg to differ. From the above scenario (where I was the victim) shows that the certain folks do not have the minimum courtesy. Let me give you another example where I was again the victim.

You are at the IKEA food outlet and you see a whole lot of plates on the table, with most of the remains lying there. Gross. You clear them away and sit down for some soup. Then, a reaching senior citizen age couple sit down at the table next to you and place a few plates in a similar position as the ones mentioned above on YOUR table. How rude is that? And because you do not have anyone sitting at the same table and do not want to vacate your seat, you spend the remainder of your time having no choice but to look at the nauseating mess.

Is it just a mental thing that comes to us when we are really THAT aged? I seriously think so. Perhaps it is the same with any single place in this world. Be it young or old. Even so the world will be a much better place if people were a tiny bit more sensitive to each others' feelings.