Saturday, June 16, 2007

Modern Parents and Teachers

I heard a lot from my friends, colleagues, aunties and uncles regarding on the education system.
The parents will complain to the principal when their children are not getting any attention from the teachers.
Especially when their results does not meet the parent's expectation. Parents, please give yourself a good thought when during the exam time, emotional comes in. Anxiety can be one of the reason that will make your children's results not performing well. Add-on pressure from you will make the condition worsen.

Is it true that the teachers did not give their full support in teaching the students.
Or the parents nowadays have higher expectation from the eduational personel to teach their kids.
But have the parents ever think that by complaining will not help, instead it may worsen the relationship between parents and teachers. Both parties would want to grow this new plant(the child), both sides must cooperate. Does the parents reflect on themselves of the way that they teach their own children..

The child is born by you, you should have the responsibilities to educate them especially on the moral part, have you (as a parent) did that. Nowadays, in our society, i should said most of the children would only care more for themselves due to more and more temptations, they do not know what is called consideration for others.
Does the parents teach about any values on consideration for others or the parents teach the children that you must always get top so that in future you could earn more money, and win others but the child lost the moral values.
Compete with others with capability and not by going shortcut or some no good ways to achieve certain things.

Parents, please ask yourself, are you living like hell when your children or someone who gives the teaching are unable to meet your expectations. You will blame on others but not yourself. Sometimes, let go a bit and let the children and others have some space to breathe will be better.

Of course, I do not denied that there are some people who teach because of the money but not truely educate the younger generation. Teachers, please think if you are not able to pass good values to the younger generation, what will happen to our society in future. Despite the education management giving you the pressure.

Therefore, parents should trust the teachers and teachers must show their sincerity of teaching their children. That's why we call you as a teacher, you should have some good values whereby the children can also look upon to.
Basically, most of the modern parents will only want their children to give them the results but less moral build in them because they are affect by the society trends, everyone wants to get good result and that's definitely. Not only the study result but also the moral result..

Think for our younger generation, they will be the one living in this world after we are gone..

Even before we left the world, there are some children who are unable to forgo the great pressure given turn stray or even commit suicide when they cannot meet their parent's expectation or their own expectation that they build up since young(High Ego).

2 comments:

Slasher Arcana said...

Hi... I think alot of people have confused the role of a teacher.

Part of the confusion is due to parents RELEGATING their parental duties to a teacher. Which is terrible.

The key here is, there IS a difference between teacher (lao shi) and mentor (shi fu).

A teacher teaches. A mentor guides. Don't expect teachers to guide your children as they are NOT there to guide. Some of them aren't even parents!

Laughing budda said...

Good slasher, yes they are confused of the roles or rather shirk reponsibilities for some parents (may sound serious cos they maybe too busy earning $$, haha).

In my opinion, lao shi and shifu are the same as they are both in education works.

I shall say shifu is an older representation of someone who teach, lao shi is a modern representation.

As a student, you are learning new things from others, that person can be considered your teacher as you have acquire some knowledge or values from them. It is just that the person is officialise that we call lao shi in school. There must be a rule. When you learn martial arts, you call the person shifu.

A teacher is to teach and guide the children, it is not only teaching the subject. If not, why do we have form teacher or we have care person in polytechnic. They could pick any "ah te" and "ah gou" to become the teacher not just because they have the certificates only. Or maybe "YES"

I admit that some teachers aren't even parents but they have also goes thru the educational path and they have met numbers of teachers who teach them. Really, do not tell me that there isn't a single good value that you can find from your teacher that you had come across. But of course, if the teacher can teach the subject well and make the students understand, it should be good enough compare to those who can't teach and talk much like me..hahahahaha..

This is a learning path for the youngs..