Teacher’s Enemy #1
By Miss Taken
@miss_taken (155)
Philippines
August 2, 2018 6:48pm CST
I know I am not the best student during my time. But I think I did fairly well, better than most I suppose. However, I fail to appreciate everything that there is to our educational system. There are things that I wuestion, and there are things that I admire most.
This came to mind when I stumbled upon this poster (see image) as I was browsing through my Facebook feed this morning. As it says:
“Teacher: You already have failed two tests.”
“Student: You already have failed to educate me twice.”
Looking at the photo and the comments that came thereafter, I realized that my own biews were challenged by this quote. I know that I can’t entriely blame or credit the grade of my education to my teachers, but I also strongly think that our teachers are most influential in our learning years. I’m quite confused as of now, I don’t know if I agree to this or what. But I know I agree and disagree at certain levels.
How about you? What’s on your mind after hearing this?
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3 responses
@rakski (125761)
• Philippines
3 Aug 18
Both the students and teacher has the responsibility on making the education system effective.
It will be much better if the teachers were encouraging and motivating to students but not all teachers do that. So in absence of that, the students should study harder.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
8 Aug 18
@miss_taken The teacher has a responsibility to present the material in a clear and understandable way. They cannot make you pay attention, study, do your homework, or even care about school. The student has to want to learn what the teacher has to teach them.
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@rakski (125761)
• Philippines
9 Aug 18
@miss_taken even if they paid millions but the students are not cooperating, learning will not push through. A teacher cannot make all of the students to be attentive to them every time.
@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
3 Aug 18
I have a Teacher before, she will cry instead of scolding us for having low grades.
She will always tell us that she fails as a Teacher for not making us have good grades.
And that makes us feel guilty. The next time, since we don't want her to cry again, we agreed to study as a group.
The final exam she was jumping for joy because we all have high grades.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
8 Aug 18
As a teacher, my response to this would be how well or poorly do the others in your class fair with a particular teacher. When 80 to 90% of my class is able to score well on tests and assignments consistently, then I know I am doing a good job. I can usually determine why the other 10 to 20% isn't doing well and it is usually because of things outside my control such as home life problems or bad influences from the adults and older children at home and in the neighborhood where they live such that the students don't think school is important.
Should I find a large portion of the class is not fairing well, then I know the problem is with how I am teaching the material and I will find a better way to present the subject matter.
As for Trump, from what I've learned in my research, he was always a terrible student, got sent away by his father to a military reform school because he couldn't handle being in a regular school, and his father and brother paid the Wharton School of Business to give Trump his degree and send him on his way. According to at least one of his professors, Trump was the stupidest student he'd ever tried to teach. I wouldn't take too much of what he says to heart when it comes to education.
