Introspection
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Over the times I have worked with children. I have realized that I am watching who and what I was when I was that age. It is like having someone put a mirror in front of you and point to a spot on your body you have not looked at in a long time or you have never really noticed before.
From my perspective (adult) I think they are wasting their time trading football cards and chasing boys both literally and figuratively. I think they are stupid to not take the opportunity to make something of themselves with the resources at hand. Billions of money pouring into Education sector all going to waste on these kids who are simply not interested in studying at all.
There are of course model students who sit in class and do not talk during teaching and do as they are told. But I am mainly working with kids who are not model pupils.
Perspective from children's view:
Doing well means feeling "smart" and "clever". Doing badly meant you are just a failure. When you are a child it only boils down to two simple facts:
If you are not pretty at least be clever .
If you are pretty you would have more attention and you would be popular.
On some occasions there are smart and pretty girls but these are like one in a million. Such girls are usually the most sort after and everyone wants to be like them.
I digress I find that on one hand I have to understand the kid's point of view and on the other hand remember that I am an educator and thus I have to force them to see it from my perspective too. If they do not understand I have to make them understand. Most of the time it is like having visitors from different planets speaking together. It is expected that nobody will really understand one another. C'est la vie
From my perspective (adult) I think they are wasting their time trading football cards and chasing boys both literally and figuratively. I think they are stupid to not take the opportunity to make something of themselves with the resources at hand. Billions of money pouring into Education sector all going to waste on these kids who are simply not interested in studying at all.
There are of course model students who sit in class and do not talk during teaching and do as they are told. But I am mainly working with kids who are not model pupils.
Perspective from children's view:
Doing well means feeling "smart" and "clever". Doing badly meant you are just a failure. When you are a child it only boils down to two simple facts:
If you are not pretty at least be clever .
If you are pretty you would have more attention and you would be popular.
On some occasions there are smart and pretty girls but these are like one in a million. Such girls are usually the most sort after and everyone wants to be like them.
I digress I find that on one hand I have to understand the kid's point of view and on the other hand remember that I am an educator and thus I have to force them to see it from my perspective too. If they do not understand I have to make them understand. Most of the time it is like having visitors from different planets speaking together. It is expected that nobody will really understand one another. C'est la vie
Labels: daily updates, intellectual bites, reflective
what we could have been, 5:53 PM.
