Banish Those Teacher Blues

We don`t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it`s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you`re just another brick in the wall.

``Why do you bother trying? Children are horrible, work is horrible, and the food stinks``,

HAHA! Reminds me of my Accounting teacher in Class 11 and 12, guy named Anand Swaroop..also known as Don because of his Amitabh style covering the ears hairdo.

Here was his opening statement on the first day of school for Class 12:

``Today we going to study Consignment Accounts. Everybody think it is very easy. But actually very difficult. Everybody fail. Everybody get 33 marks. Nobody pass..Okay, open books.``

Ofcourse, in all fairness he was also a teacher who was technically proficient and that is something I have never understood...

What makes a better teacher? Someone with complete mastery of the subject or someone who may have comparativly lesser knowledge of the subject but is better at inspiring students?

T-Bhai,

Oh, for the virtues of sober, reticent and calm maturity...I`m pretty sure we ALL have our moments...but then, you wouldnt be responding if I were a paragon of good manners, would you? Interestingly enough, the students of some of my saltier colleagues seem to have a good deal of respect for their looser approaches...but I wonder, why such a minority of progressive professionals on Chowk?

;)

.. so we`re all adults at least......well, some of us anyway...

...let me get this right...do you mean not all are adults here?...my goodness! what an insightful observation sammi...hmmmm...this explains the juvenile diatribes and pontifications on other boards and unplugged...

(and yes am utterly serious)

;)

T-Bhai,

Well...this is at the uni level, so we`re all adults at least....well, some of us anyway. My fav. recent story is of two very bright profs. who are co-teaching a Ph.D class and spent the entire first class debating the merits of the readings the other had assigned. Now THATS entertainment! I`d pay to just watch that class...

shandy:

...still have nightmares...if i make a silly grammar mistake miss val d`ramo would dispatch obl personally to take care of me...(shudder)...between you and samm no wonder i was a lousy student and luckily for devils and brats strayed away from teaching...

lve,

t

(ps: yes, one of these days will reply:)

Shandana:
Are you teaching in North America? If not, I am really impressed. Judging by the things teachers do, Pakistani schools seem to be no different from schools here.

Shandana,

Pretty accurate. May I add a few types along lines of the rumor mill?

1. Dont refer to colleagues who ``say`` they have three children and are married as ``she`` just because you suspect they are gay and are in denial.

2. If a colleague breaks a major bone during gardening, dont make little drinky drinky motions behinds their backs.

3. Dont compliment the young and of color faculty on their articulateness.

4. Do challenge all the conservative males in your dept at every given opportunity until they prove their points and dont rest on their gender and not any talent they actually had to work at. Make them work for it thus reminding them just how more qualified the more progressive of your dept tend to be.

5. Every opportunity of peer assessment can be a POSITIVE conversation! So what if the well meaning, but really annoying senior faculty member shows up late to and leaves early in your teaching evaluation and then REAMS your butt in a written form that will be placed in your file until the day you die, your Dead Poets Society schtick notwithstanding...PASTE a HUGE smile on your face, carry a legal pad and pen into her office and ask her for strategies for improving your class.

6. Dont walk into class, look at your students and say, ``God, how I hate teaching.``

7. Remind your students that Biblical, Torahnical and Quranic scripture does not a lit scholarly interpretation make...or as my friend puts it, ``If the Good Book had all the answers to everything, you wouldnt be sitting in my class, now would you?``

8. Call equally on girl students as you do boys. Give female students consistant and respectful attention.

9. Give any male students who try to flirt with you the fish eye...then give them the number of your conservative/closeted colleague.

10. Maintain to your class that, yes, you are an analytic machine. Any of those sloppy, gooey feelings they have for the text best be directed to their personal diaries...

All rules are based on true and factual info. Mostly.

Shandana -

Okay...!!!...what atrocious prose...!!!...hehehehe...!!!...I’m starting over with “The Cat in the Hat...!!!...I must have been taught by an English teacher who can’t write...!!!...as they say, with teachers like these...!!!

This piece of yours should be re-titled “Banish the Teacher”...!!!

Godot:

While we`re on the subject of bad writing allow me to point out...

that should be `what atrocious prose`, and either ... or !!!

I suggest primary level readers to improve your grasp of the language.

shandana

What an atrocious prose...!!!

An example: “nip the issues that plague them in the bud”...!!!...and another one, “bite you in the rear end.”...hehehehe...I was laughing too hard to continue...!!!

Oh, okay, maybe I should pay attention to the “genre”...!!!

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