Assalamu'alaikum everyone,
Alhamdulillah, it is great to be given another day to breathe, to live and to continue on worshiping our Creator.
Recently, I came across with students who had a 'lot' to say about their lecturers.
The lecturers are cruel.. they are purposely failing us! they never liked us in the first place!
These lecturers are horrible! That lecturer is bias!
Blah blah blah..so on and so forth..you get the idea.
It's not that I don't believe in what they say, but I believe in the term 'there are two sides to every story'.
In high school, I had this one SPM Biology teacher that I didn't like very much. Why? The way she taught us in class that caused me to dislike her. Sounds nerdy I know but it was our final year in high school and I wanted to do well in my Bio. it was the bloody SPM for goodness sake.
"I loved biology very much, until she showed up and ruined it all."
I'll describe to you on how she taught us in class. She looked at the form 5 Biology book, read it for 5 minutes and wrote it on back the whiteboard. You'd think that she would made us understand more or explain it more elaborate, but NOOOOOO!! She just read it back to our faces and then BOOM.. exercise work. WTH?? Seriously dude, if this is how I get to be a teacher then I'm not surprise that I can be one myself. Read from the textbook and your done. A Teacher is produced. Plus, her voice was so damn low, it couldn't even pass the 1st row in class. It was literally like seeing a mute person trying to speak. It was rather sad to look at it.
So whenever we had Biology in class, I would not care what she said and did my own thing. Some of my classmates had the same thinking as I was back then. Only a few of us were actually listening to her.
This had been going on till the day of SPM.
A few weeks before our SPM started, the teacher had swore "Those who never listened during my class, will never get an A in their Bio." You'd think we would at least took her words seriously, but due to my huge size ego and 'not-listening' personality..I ignored her warning and continued to study by myself.
That - was a huge mistake.
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When the day of our SPM results came out, I was such a nervous wreck! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't even think.. I didn't know what to do exactly. My mother took my results since she's a teacher at my school, so I didn't need to come and get it. too much hassle they say...hehekkk :p
As I looked as my SPM slip, well what do you know. surprise..surprise.. you reap what you sow, right? My Biology was 'C'. a big fat C, and it's not even a plus. just a 'C'.
Where am I going with this story? I'm getting to the point.
No matter how much effort you put into studying certain subjects, if you don't respect the teacher.. you'll never be able to achieve the grades, the goals, or achievement that you worked so hard for.
"Sesungguhnya, doa seorang cikgu itu adalah berkat kepada pelajar."
Because of that, I had learnt my lesson. Nowadays, even there is that one teacher that I didn't like very much, I still respect that teacher. No matter how much you wanted another teacher to come and teach you, no matter how much you dislike, argue or whatever with a teacher...you still need to respect them.
Why? Because they worked very hard to teach you in class.. Plus, they graduated without ever using Google. *Burrrrnnn*
I am telling this story so that you, students, will never make the same mistakes as I did and to never regret for not hating them. If they like to make your life miserable as you say, then try not to be one. If you did, that just shows that you're just as worst as your lecturer. If they really did treated you in an ill-mannerly way (highly unlikely), continue on smiling and say 'OK'. Hating them won't bring out the best of you but rather it'll bring out the worst from you. You won't gain a prize nor a golden ticket. Just a bigger ego.
If you don't like the way they teach, just tell them up front. It's not like they're cannibals where they will cut you up and have you for breakfast, lunch and dinner (exaggerating much?!). They are people too and your excellence is their benefit. It shows that they are a good teacher. When you are correcting/advising them, please speak in a calm-moderate tone and make sure you use nice words. You don't want to start a bar fight with your teachers, you're trying to make peace with them.
Well, this is just my side of the story.
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