A self-inspection on my teaching

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    After a long meeting for a whole morning, we settle here in our office to write an article on our daily teaching, with an aim to find out what is missing from our teaching in every class. No one knows what the best way of teaching is. We can only make efforts to approach it. We are just not sure about it.

Having been a teacher for fifteen years, I am still uncertain as to how I can give the most effective class. I ruminated on so many things and only found nothing. I have to write what I have been expected to write by the leaders to meet the requirements. From time to time I think this life of mine is only too much of a waste, with nothing possible to achieve and doing merely the drudgery. Nothing can emancipate us from it.

Most of the teachers have to finish the job with only hand and mouth, but not with their soul. Most probably that is because we have been under pressure for so long and the drudgery has simply taken all the interest and passion out of us. I wish my passion in teaching restored to us.

I know clearly that I am not a man of capability to deal with tough matters in terms of human relationship. But I do like the job. I don’t think there should be any manmade contradictions to be involved in teaching, which should be holy and pure. Nothing can be contaminated since it involves the cultivation of souls of youngsters. However, too many things that should have been solved in the way of the children have been dealt with in the way of the adult.

“Those who have a heart of a child will be an evergreen tree.” Ye Shengtao once said. It denotes a meaning that a heart of the child can help people become young and spirited again. We are teachers and we are surrounded by students. What a good opportunity that is for us to be like a child. However, nowadays people have all rated shrewdness or sophistication so high that we can’t afford to discard them and embrace only the innocence and purity. Untarnished by anything won’t make you as pure as can be. You would be regarded as a good-for-nothing. What a bizarre and tragic thing it is!