Showing posts with label bad teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad teachers. Show all posts
Saturday, October 5, 2013
I
just read the blog Self-knowledge
is the only basis of true knowledge - Day 415 and I would like to add to
that perspective.
I
have also watched the documentary Waiting
for Superman as well as the follow up The Inconvenient Truth Behind
Waiting for Superman - and noticed another interesting point as to how to
investigate the information being shared instead of eating it up blindly.
What
I noticed within the first documentary is that they were essentially blaming
the teachers and the tenure system as the cause for all problems in the
education system, and thus, they bring a solution in form of charter schools
which provide the best teachers for the best student experience. What I found peculiar
is the double standard it represents. Have a look, they were sharing their
approach with students, and how, with the right tools and support each student
can be the best, which I agree with, and that the failure of students within
the public system does not indicate the lack of the student but rather their
failure is indicating and pointing towards a bigger problem in the schooling system
- but here comes the double standard – if this is true for students, wouldn’t it
be just as true for teachers?
Is
it not true that if we realize that by giving each child the support they need
to become the best that they can be each child can excel, and thus, if students
are failing we must realize there is a problem in the education system instead
of placing the responsibility solely on the students, wouldn’t the same common sense be applied with
teachers, where if we see teachers that are disengaged and don’t do their best,
teachers that have given up on education and just sit around waiting for the
day to go by, not giving their students all that they need, wouldn’t that indicate
that those teachers have been failed by the system?
The
documentary blamed the teachers for being the problem in education, not
realizing the bigger picture that bad teachers are showing us, as a symptom, a
greater problem of the entire education system in its totality.
They
bring up the problem of tenure, and expressing it to be the reason why teachers
don’t care – but who of us wants to be doing something we don’t care about, wouldn’t
all of us prefer to apply ourselves in our chosen profession and do our best,
knowing that we are supported and encouraged to be the best that we can be?
The
point of tenure is in a way a fantastic system of protection, in a world where
people lose their jobs left and right, what would the teachers focus on if they
were threatened daily that if they do not perform they would lose their job,
what would their starting point of teaching be? not the children, but rather their
own self interest, survival and fear – how would that solution create a better
education system? This point obviously brings up once again the greater picture
of the economic system, where people are not looked after within the system but
rather are treated merely as a human resource, that can be disregarded and
replaced when the new and improved model comes in, this is true not only in
education, but in all fields, and thus, within this economic system where we
use and treat people as commodities, we are setting the ground for indifference
and disregard towards others, while enhancing self interest and personal gain
at all costs, in spite of the consequences we bring to those around us.
So,
here, im not saying that there are no problems with the tenure system, we can
plainly see that it has been used to manipulate the system for interests and
power rather than being a force that ensures that the education system as a
whole will always be in the benefit of all children. But here again we must not
forget to look at the greater system in which we all live in, and have accepted
as such.
They
show in the documentary the approach schools take to handle these bad tenure
teachers where they just rotate them from one school to another instead of
finding solutions to support them to become the best they can be, it is almost
like the system doesn’t want to support them in bettering themselves, the system
has given up on them, just as they have given up on children, just as children
that have given up on learning and on themselves.
It’s
all the same, as above so below – and the solution must be found for all levels
of the problem, isolating the problem within the realm of the students will inevitably
target the teachers as the problem, but that would be looking at it through tunnel
vision rather than actually investigating the problem and situation in all its dimensions
and finding an actual solution that will stand the test of time and that will
support all individuals involved.
Bottom
line, when inequality and double standards are being presented, there is always more to the
story that is not being shared, and in most cases this is done within hidden
interests in order to gain power and money through the control of public opinion.
And thus one must take responsibility and practice critical reasoning, and to deliberately
look for the double standards within the information that is being presented,
and not to watch / hear the information passively, one must question and
investigate in order to ensure that the information is aligned with reality and
not promoting a one sided interest, otherwise we will always remain as commodities,
as tools in the game in which others are playing, and powerless to influence or
change.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
this is continuing my previous blogs
Day 143 – Inadequacy
Day 144 - Inadequacy - a child gymnast
Day 145 - Inadequacy - Child's Play
Day 147 - Inadequacy - forgiving childhood play time
Day 148 - Inadequacy - Reading difficulties
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to enjoy reading as a child, but then create a resistance towards reading during school, as I didn't enjoy being forced to read, and thus have created myself as a character of not reading well, not realizing the self sabotage I have been participating in through doing so, as within time I have believed this character to be me, thus, I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to compromise myself and sabotage myself within spitefulness towards teachers and the schooling system, not realizing that I am not punishing them by not reading but am only punishing myself
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to create an idea that reading is for geeks as a point of justification to not read, as another form of separation between me and reading, and thus to resist and avoid reading as I didn't want to be associated with being a geek, within this I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to act within a starting point of wanting to be accepted with "the cool kids" and thus, not realizing tat I have created the idea in my mind where I connected reading with not being accepted, and thus have allowed my fear of rejection to direct me and within this to sabotage myself and compromise myself, as I realize now that reading is the most valuable skill ne can have as it enhances ones vocabulary which is directly related to ones ability to express ones self, and thus, I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to not consider the simple / physical common sense within reality but instead have allowed myself to be directed by fears, desires, spitefulness and social conformity
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to accumulate ideas and beliefs of me being a bad reader and thus believing them to be true as the definition of who I am , to such an extent that when I am faces with articles to read I experience myself going into overwhelming ness and stress, as a form of panic within speaking to myself in my mind the back chat that "it is too much for me to read", as I scroll down and see how many pages I must read, thus I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to create and exist within fear of words, as all it is is words on paper (or screen) and is by no physical mean scary or dangerous, yet I have allowed myself to exist within and as the character of "I can't read well" that I have created a fear of reading, not realizing that if I eliminate the fear all that is left is words constructed in sentenses and paragraphs to form an idea / concept, within this, I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to fear not being able to understand the content of the article / paragraph, as well as fear of not reading fast enough, and thus, every time I sit down to read I have accepted and allowed this back chat and self doubt to come up where instead of supporting myself in focusing and going through the words, sentences, paragraphs, article I panic and all my attention is directed to my fear and self belief that it's too much for me, and then create and manifest that which I fear, as I cannot practically read as long as I am in my mind thinking thoughts and talking with myself as back chat. Thus, I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to stop the back chat and simply focus on the reading, within realizing that only through actually reading will I be able to understand and walk through the entire text, where as, as long as I participate in the mind I am distracting myself and sabotaging myself from simply sitting and reading physically
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to resent my friends when they would discuss books they have read because within such conversations, I experienced myself excluded as I have not read the books sand believed I couldn't contribute to the conversation as an equal, I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to create an idea and a high value around reading and define it as a symbol of intelligence and belonging to certain circles, and thus have experienced myself as inadequate and an outsider once I realized that everyone around me is a "reader", I forgive myself for accepting and allowing to resent my reader friends instead of facing myself within it and realizing that I actually resent myself for making the decision to stop reading for all the "wrong" reasons as I have stopped reading within the starting point of spitefulness and fear
I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to see the inevitable, where one side of the polarity will always "invite" the other side of the polarity, as within the physical law of balance, and thus I have not realized that through creating a resistance towards reading in order to fit in, I have also created and am responsible for the outflow / consequence as manifesting that which I resist, as actually experiencing myself being excluded due to not reading, the very tactic I used for the opposite result.
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