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How to improve our education system?
(Part One)
1.
Be
affirmative. If we think too much about what others say about our education
system, I don’t think we will progress because those who propose may not know
our history. We have to be firm with our decision. We are the best persons to
decide on the best solutions. It is good to listen to others. However, do we
really know about their intention? Perhaps they are trying to destroy our children.
For example, we are going to abolish PMR soon. Is this the best decision? In
my point of view, if the students’ lives in school are not challenged, I don’t
think they can face all the unbearable challenges as they leave the school. We
have to get them to experience the beauty of struggle and failure before we
release them into the unknown world. What we need in our education now is the
leaders to lead with LOVE, the teachers to teach with LOVE, the students to
learn with LOVE and the parents to support with LOVE instead of MACHINE GUNS.
2.
Understand
the concept of giving the best when we give the best. If we want our
education system to be one of the best in the world or perhaps the best in the
world, we have to put ourselves in the teacher’s and student’s shoes. On the teacher’s
part, we must understand that effective teaching cannot happen in a classroom
if there are more than 30 students in a classroom. There are teachers who have
to teach 50 students in a classroom. If
we can build other great and gigantic buildings in our country, why can’t we
build schools which are big enough for our children? On the student’s part, if
we want them to do well in school, assist them well especially financial and
emotional support because they are children. They are not independent enough to
be financially and emotionally independent. Furthermore, even some adult fail
in these two areas. For the weak classes, the number of students is not
supposed to be more than 7. The best is one on one consultation because the
weak students are suffering from low inferiority.
3.
Study
the effects of seniority. One of the dark sides of seniority is the high
rank officers are selected based on seniority. It is not based on credibility,
characters and popularity because the promotion is done based on the number of
important persons that you know. I suggest that we choose an education officer
and the education director based on democracy. We get all teachers and
non-teaching staff to choose the best individuals to be the education director,
deputies and etc. because teachers and non-teaching staff need a leader who practices
servant leadership. We want a leader who is fair, caring, and supportive. If
the leader is caring, the teachers will be caring. If the teachers are caring,
the students will be caring. When the students are caring, eventually we will
have a CARING SOCIETY. Good leadership is very important. Please get the LITTLE
NAPOLEON out of the education system.
4.
Study the
teacher’s pressure. One of them is, why should husband and wife be
separated from each other for years? Teachers are born as human beings. Human
beings mean they have feelings. If they are not happy, can teachers create a
happy environment in a classroom? If they are far apart, the tendency to be
involved in adultery is extremely high. Are we silently encouraging them to practice
adultery? The second one is, some teachers spent about 3 to 4 years learning
about a subject that they are going to teach in school. Sadly, as they are
assigned to their first school, they are forced to teach other subjects which
are basically unknown to them. Who will suffer? The teachers and the students will
suffer mentally and emotionally as both know very little about the subject.
Obviously, the students and the teachers will lose a lot of precious time
because the blind is leading the blind. If the teachers are not happy, can the
teacher create a happy environment for the students? What is our objective? Is
it to make the teachers and students crazy, mad or happy? We have to encourage
teachers, students and everyone about the importance of having a balanced life.
If we work 24 hours a day, we will enjoy sudden death and nobody will care
about our loved ones. Reduce the workload because teachers need time to reflect
on what he or she has done in a classroom. Teaching is not all about teaching
as teaching is about listening, thinking, reflecting, planning and many more.
Please try to understand this deadly pressure. If teachers do not enjoy
teaching, can they give their best to your children? Pressure is good but unnecessary
pressure or WORRY can really
destroy each of us. You cannot see the teacher’s sweat because the sweat is within.
5.
Be fair.
Each leader has all the information about his or her subordinates. As you have
the all the information, you know who has not received the EXCELLENT AWARD and
otherwise. Be fair. Give it to those who have not received it because there
must be something special about everybody. Do as God says because God gives
RAIN and SUNNY DAYS to everyone regardless of what they do or their background.
Recognize them in BLACK and WHITE. Don’t just say it. Write it!
6. Treat teachers as teachers. What I am
trying to say is that teachers have become modern ULTRAMAN today. Why do I say
so? Now we have CIVIC EDUCATION. How about religious and moral subjects? Are
they not enough? Parents are the ones who should teach the children more about
morality, religion and civic education AT HOME. If parents do not teach them
about being POLITE, POSITIVE, GRATEFUL, HYGENIC, THOUGHTFUL, RESPONSIBLE and
etc. the teacher has to start from zero again as he or she will have to spend a
lot of valuable time correcting their manners, mindset, self-discipline,
characters and etc. SOME STUDENTS ALSO
DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SAY THANK YOU. Parents should STOP giving all their
responsibilities to teachers. Teachers are also treated as the parent’s private
doctor, secretary or nurse. Can teachers become everything to your children?
All the teachers need is your support and understanding if you fail as parents.
Do not condemn the teachers if parents themselves fail to educate their own
children. Good parents will not depend too much on what the teachers give to
their children. They themselves will spend their own quality time with their
children at home.
Thank you for reading..
To be continued…….
Originally written by Mani Jack.
9/1/2013
