Friday, 1 September 2006
Happy Teacher’s Day was what they said, but that was all the students knew. Teacher’s Day which falls on the first of September is to commemorate all the teachers for their hard work teaching the students and grooming them into useful citizens. Many students do not remember their teacher's hard work and often think that they only scold us and say nasty things about us. Looking back, the teachers scold us not because they like scolding us, but because they want to groom us into useful and resourceful people. We also should know that teachers do not like scolding us. However, sometimes we the students find that the teachers that scold us the most are usually the better ones, as scolding us teaches us to understand why are we wrong or what mistakes have we made. We usually realise this when we leave school, and find that whatever the teachers said about us were very valuable lessons that cannot be learnt elsewhere. Once we leave the school and go out into the working world, the scoldings we receive by our bosses or colleagues are often harsh, and they always expect us to find out our own mistakes in the quickest possible time, or else the consequences will be unbearable in certain cases. Therefore, when our teachers tell us that scolding us now is better than being scolded in the working world, I truly agree. We may be allowed to make mistakes in the school now, but mistakes in the working world may bring us great consequences that may also be unforgivable.