Teachers.
Monday, February 25th, 2008When I was in Standard 5, I had an English teacher who asked me a question. I don’t remember her name or the exact question, but I think it had to do with naming a type of bird that you keep as a pet.
So I answered, "A Budgie."
She said, "What?"
"A budgie, you know, a budgerigar."
For you idiots out there, a budgie is a small bird related to the parrot. There are tons of them in pet shops. Or you could always look it up on Wikipedia. Anyhow, this teacher became indignant, accusing me of making stuff up and saying that "there’s no such thing as a budgerigar."
I tried to explain what the bird was; how it looked like, all that shit. She refused to listen and insisted that she was right and I was wrong.
From then on I realized that teachers, in general, are stupid. They are merely products of some teaching course in our tertiary education system. They are close-minded, and not well-read. And they also refuse to accept the simple fact that there are students who are more intelligent than they are.
I’ve come across English teachers who couldn’t speak a word of English. I’ve come across dogmatic, close-minded religious teachers who spread a warped version of religion. I’ve come across teachers who are so stubborn that even when I prove myself to be in the right, I still get busted and accused of being wrong.
Now, I’m not saying that all teachers are stupid. There are some gems in this proverbial rockpile of stubborn stupidity. To this day I still remember 3 or 4 teachers who were dedicated, open-minded and honest about teaching. They actually encouraged their students to expand their intellectual horizons beyond the stifling bucket of shit that is our education system. And to these teachers, I am forever grateful.
However, most teachers are idiots. And the sad thing is, they are imparting their idiocy to their students, who in turn will grow up to become idiots themselves. And unfortunately, most students are just mindless drones stuck in a limbo of memorizing facts and formulas. They either fail in life, or become mindless drones in a boring office environment, with no creativity and lacking the ability of critical thinking.
Now I wasn’t exactly the best student in the world. In fact, I was lazy, undisciplined and uncouth. Pretty much your all-round asshole kid. I was always arguing with my teachers, who I held in contempt because of their boring teaching skills and their lack of general knowledge. In the end, I would always end up trumping the teachers, mostly because I either threatened them in one way or another, or they finally gave up and shut up.
I guess my argumentative ways were first influence by that "Budgie" incident.
Anyway, here are some examples of teachers’ idiocy :
1. To wear a songkok with your hair showing is sinful because it mimics Jews.
2. To eat with chopsticks is sinful because chopsticks are "Satan’s Fingers" (WTF?).
3. One should not touch the Chinese because they are "dirty".
4. It is sinful to wear a bow-tie because it’s "Christian".
The above statements were all made by primary-level religious teachers. Are these the teachers we want teaching our children? These teachers are racist, stupid idiots. I was absolutely flabbergasted by the "Satan’s Fingers" thing. What the bleeding fuck?!?!
Day after day I hear more of this, and it saddens me to no end. When I have a kid, and he tells me something like this, I’m gonna go to his school at punch that teacher in the face.
But you know, teachers these days are just working for the sake of a paycheck at the end of the month. There is no dedication towards making their students better people.
The repercussions are huge.
Stupid teachers > Stupid students
Stupid students = Unprepared for the real world = Unable to perform during interviews and in jobs = An unproductive economy = Collapse of a whole nation
So don’t think that this is something that we should not be concerned about.
But in the end, it just proves my point that people are idiots.
Good night.
