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Teach Me o Teacher – Don’t Torture Me!
By Loot Gous
Wow is it not amazing how much power a teacher has over the mind of a young child? It is like coloring in a page in a book. Your parents supply the book, they supply the lines along which the teacher is expected to fill in the colors. And then, what the page looks like at the end depends so much on how the teacher chose to color it in. Are they carefully creating a piece of art or are they carelessly slapping on a few non matching colors? Since I can remember I wanted to become a preacher. This I suppose was a direct result of the way my parents brought me up and the values they instilled in me. The paper and the lines the teachers had to fill in was all there. Here by us Latin was one of the subjects one had to have to be able to go to university and study for a preacher. So when I got to grade 8 I selected Latin as a subject. We had a brilliant male teacher in grade 8. He laid such a great foundation in Latin and I really fell in love with the language. It was great studying it and I scored very high marks – it was in the 95% if I am not mistaken. amo, amas, amat... I can still sing the rhyme (and even remember the tune too, lol). And then, woe me, in grade 9 this teacher had to leave our school for some reason and we got a female teacher. Straight hair like ... well, a witch is a nice one. The very first thing she did when she walked into the class was to give us a test. I was not prepared to take a test and for some reason I simply froze. My brain simply refused to respond and to supply the answers that I know I knew. Why – I do not know till this day. I got 18% for the test. And my confidence was broken. In a thousand pieces on the floor. One teacher, one test. It is like one o ring on a massive space craft that causes the whole mission to fail. This teacher was my o ring in my mission to be a preacher. Needless to say – since that day I never got more than 18% for a Latin test. I am convinced that given the correct handling at that point in time I could have done well. I feel I should have tried harder – but it was as if this teacher was causing a block in my will to work on the subject. Firstly by giving us an unprepared test and then in the way she treated me after that. And not only was there a block in my will to study Latin. Years later when I tried to study Greek and Hebrew – this same block was ever present in my mind. It was as if there was a determination in my head not to do good in any language subject any more. The end result was that I did not become a preacher. My whole life – the dream of my whole life was shattered by one totally insensitive teacher. Crazy. Maybe. Still it is true. I cannot say my whole life is a failure, as I believe I achieved success in many other ways, but the way that I hoped would be, dreamed it would be, was shattered. All I can say to parents today is: you supply the paper and you supply the lines to color in. Please ensure that your child is handled by teachers who will take care to put the colors in like artists care about their work. Carefully placing each color into place until you end up with the most beautiful painting. A person formed by loving parents and sensitive teachers. Teachers who know their subject and who know how to treat children as the sensitive human beings they are. Do we care enough about our children? Do we ensure that the teachers are of the right quality? This is critical.
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