What is wrong with education?

Should education be looked on as something similar or even the same as other departments in our society? Should politics as a means be employed at schools? Should we manage a school as if we were managing a factory or a social department?

I am no official. I have no right here to acclaim that we should do things or handle situations in this way or in that. However what I feel is that we are deviating farther and farther from the normal road of education. Every week we have to write a lot of things to comply with the demands of the leaders, which is absolutely of no avail to our daily week. Failure to do this would be regarded as either a flagrant violation of the school rules or as a disrespect of the leaders, which is ludicrous. No matter what an antagonistic attitude that I may adopt towards the daily happenings at school, I have to accept meekly. I don’t like to stand up against things that have been obediently accepted by the majorities.

Most probably working in a university is more advisable to a person like me. However my age is approaching forty. There is not the least possibility to win for myself such a position now. I am aging, like the old elm trees in the courtyard that brave any unfavorable weather for a survival.

Why should we do such a lot of drudgeries which are useless? Why should we give a lot of useless homework to others to keep them only occupied? Don’t we know that wasting others’ time is the same as taking others’ lives for their money? I am tired of this and I am wondering what a society it is.

My views on Teaching Methodology

What is teaching?

Though I have worked for about fifteen years and in others’ eyes, I should be experienced so far as my teaching time is concerned, I am always perplexed at the question. I really don’t know what teaching means now.

It is undeniable that today we are teaching students in order for them to pass exams. We are extracting juice every day. Students are like fruits, waiting to be extracted. What a tragedy it is!

Have we been born to the work to suffer, rather to enjoy this life? Everyday in the pursuit of nothingness and vain glory, I am lost. I don’t know where I can resort to as a shelter to enrich this life and make this life meaningful. To try to make the life of the students happy and then teach them something is my aims in daily teaching.

For various purposes, a lot of schools are initiating some reforms in language teaching. Some are after fame, some are after material gains, and some others are only under the pressure of the superiors to make reforms. So many of the teaching methods are roughly the same as what was happening many years ago, with only a change of terms at most. It is a reform of terminology, not a reform of teaching methods. Most of the teachers, who were diligent learners of various teaching methods, are getting bored and tired.

It is after many years of hard work on research that we can find something innovative and more effective. However, I am surprising to find that some can make several reforms in a day, which is only nonsense, or only a new way of terminology.

Whatever methods we may follow, we should make the students happy, eager to learn, and find the learning a happy task to enjoy, rather than a suffering to be brought under every day.