Entry : 6

Date: unknown

“When will we ever learn? By Jacqueline Pereira”

Indeed it is an interesting article. She started stressing that she didn’t want to be a teacher in the first place, from the beginning of the article. It shows how much she did not want to be a teacher. Though she played around a little during her studies, she still manage to come out as a teacher, and that proves how ‘high’ the English teaching quality is at that time. The requirement was low, teachers were lacked of motivation, and no encouragement to excel in their study to make better teachers. Who to be blamed for that?

When I was in my matriculation, doing some engineering course, I was so upset with my physics result I made a drastic decision to quit and try something else. Something I thought easy, at least easier than calculations and formulas. I tried TESL. Well, to be honest, I doesn’t feel that easy. It never was, even from the beginning. I have grammar problems and plus my reading between the lines in literature is not that good either. Yet, my friends said I was doing ok. There was nothing to worry about. I keep thinking, does my quality is good enough to make a good teacher one day? Will I be able to help some rural area kids to have better future? I am still unsure.

Back to the issue she talked about; about the government and what they did and didnt, with the corruption and so on, I was not that interested in that. It is just something that we can do nothing about. I tried to voice out my opinion about this in this particular website once, but what I got were the same; “who are we to judge, they had thought about it better than us, we knew nothing, they knew more, don’t they?” and on and on like that…nothing will change…the book will always from the same vendor, money will always be spent more on pension teacher celebration than on poor students with no school uniforms and books, and it will stay that way forever, right? She made her good decision to stop being a teacher and she seems happy about it. What about me? I am about to become a teacher in two semesters time, what should I do?