I went to teach at my junior's place this morning.. I noticed that she's starting to laugh more nowadays.. Is she finding my lessons interesting? Or does it have anything to do with the fact that my classes would end soon? :P
In the afternoon, I went to Subang Jaya to meet up with H.. He asked me to help teach his cousin who he deemed was hopeless and beyond help in his studies.. So I took up his challenge and taught the boy 2 hours of Additional Mathematics.. So how was it? Well, initially I taught him something he already knew .. And during the course of the lesson, I actually didn't know how to answer one of the model questions and I had to ask for H's help, who incidentally was sleeping peacefully right next to us.. And even he couldn't answer the question :P
So what do I think of this boy? Well, he could definitely use a lot of training.. He forgets even the simplest of formulas and he easily gives up on questions that stump him.. But once I showed him how to work on those questions, he could quickly catch on to what I said and do those questions himself.. So in my opinion, he wasn't that hopeless at all.. Although I might've dropped my expectations way low when H warned me about meeting the most blur student I'd ever known :P
But you know what I found in common between H's cousin and my junior? They're both under tremendous pressure to perform.. Both of their parents were overly anxious about their children's capability that somehow they're putting down their own kids.. I think that's really sad.. The self-worth of today's youth is entirely based on their academic performance.. What's worse, their own parents are the one who keeps criticizing them in public.. I don't know.. I think I'm biased because I'm very grateful to have parents who didn't really mind if I didn't score a string of As, just as long as I had tried my best.. And thankfully I was able to make my parents proud.. Alhamdulillah..
Teaching has made me realize that you've got such a strong potential to change a person's life.. You can inspire someone to learn or you can simply let him languish in his apathy.. I know that I still have lots to learn, but as for now, I just wish to live my life one day at a time :)
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NHA at 4:59 PM ::
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