Sunday, March 1, 2009

"To Miss with Love"

I’ve just finished watching ‘To Sir with Love’ and I find myself staring at the monitor even after the show has ended. Good movies usually struck such impact on me, and this one is not like those ordinary good movies, it’s better! I am engrossed from the beginning to the end.

Braithwaite, in my judgement is an intelligent, warm brute who always find a way to skilfully mesh reality and humanity in his teaching. Because of this, he is different for when other teachers taught a textbook, he taught life. Braithwaite manipulated his students to act decent and in return treated those innocent rebels with an acknowledgement of respected adults. This includes maintaining the least code of hygiene to which that prevent smells and flies, a cleansed language etiquette and cloth to match it, as well as a polished manner used regularly by educated adults.

One thing I’ve learnt from the senior educators is that never to expect learners to be expectable. Choosing students is never a teacher’s luxury. Thus, in the end the ultimate solution is to adapt and adopt.

Braithwaite successfully demonstrated it, among other educationalist characters on the television from genuine Miss G in Freedom Writers to the ‘too-good-to-be-true’ Onizuka in GTO. Often when I contemplated these supreme teachers, I try to seek myself in between them but alas, in their shadows, I am invisible. Am I worth a teacher?

One more year of drudgery, I am off to serve my purpose and yes, though my certificate confirms my qualification(if I graduated) as a teacher, the real question is..would I earn the title?? What kind of young audience will be staring at me and whatever will I do if they turn out to be more a monster than typical high school rascals.

Would I have my own “To Miss with Love”…???????????????????????

Posted by a lifelong learner at 4:35 AM