Tuesday, November 25, 2008

respect the respectful

I have 10 teachers in IB to fulfill my 7 courses. Yet, there's only one who makes me want to tie him to a chair and burn the classroom. Call him Mr Pee. Like other conventionalists, he gets stung so easily when nudged with slightly offensive matters. Then through using his label as a teacher, he explodes and naturally gobbles up all the respect i had for him. Did i even start with any? 

Teachers like him make me realize the nature of respect. Are we forced to respect those in authority? Verbally, no. But technically, yes. Why do we have to respect TEACHERS? I understand why we have to respect our parents, grandparents. Without them, will we exist? But with other adults, I feel that in order to gain respect, i have to earn them. Despite that, when i feel that i am not gaining any respect from the opposition, then all courtesy is lost no matter who they are. 

Nevertheless, it doesn't and can't operate in that manner. They may say that they are not enforcing students to respect teachers, and therefore it should be in the students' nature to feel the need to be civil to their teachers. But once us, students, stretch a tiny bit further than the accepted boundaries, those teachers will get enraged. Final result will have a negative impact on the student, of course. 

Back to Mr. Pee. As to now, I have no respect for him whatsoever. He treats me appallingly and I am running out of patience. I am starting to intentionally forget that he is a teacher i am forced to be polite to and look at him as a human being. A human being who doesn't deserve any courtesy. 

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