The (Second or) Last Lesson with CTG 207/218/229
It was a lesson on Life. My favourite kind of lesson:)
You know you like conducting a lesson when you don't tire of revisiting Steve Job's commencement speech 3 times in a week but instead listen to it with the same rapt attention you did when you first encountered it.
Mr Heng's life isn't as inspirational as Steve Job's but i hope my students sensed how a typical product of the Singapore education system and society tries to take Job's advice to heart and struggles to see if this is indeed applicable in our context.
wa, macham like AQ answering. Haha.
2.5 years into teaching, I can honestly say I don't regret my decision. Although there are larger forces beyond my control, I like the process of meeting different kinds of personalities, getting to know them and interacting with them. Although I dread asking the third class to highlight conjunctions and punctuation marks yadda dadda, I feel okay-maybe even energised-once I'm in the classroom.
I never expected to meet interesting students in my profession. It's true what educators say--You learn with your students and from them as well.
1 Comments:
Wow wow... Steve Job's commencement speech huh? I've read that before and was in awe after that. Given Singapore's paper chasing mentality, do you think he'd even succeed in local context? I think it's against all odds, but he did it cuz of something we all might lack in our lives - passion.
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