"Indeed it may be your paycheck, but this is the future of my nation'"
We've talked about how people explore their passions and what strives them. Now, one could asked themselves, what happens when someone is not passionate about what their doing? Does it affect others? In what ways may it affect others? Positive? Negative? or maybe even both? Jeff Bliss is a high school dropout who realized that education is key for his future. So he decides to go back to school and move forward, but becomes angry when he shows up to class to a teacher that just does the minimal. As Jeff says, she only hands out packets and expects the students to do the rest. She does no sort of interaction with her students. So Jeff finally decides to speak up for himself and stand against his teacher. Unknowingly, Jeff also does it for others who were most likely too afraid to speak up because they felt that nothing would be done about the problem. There is a lot of reasons why Jeff may have reacted like this.
One of the reasons why I think Jeff reacted like this is because he felt his education was being taken as a joke. I f a teacher doesn't interact with students, students will become uninterested. Jeff says "All you done is sit there and hand out freaking packets." This statement shows how Jeff feels disturbed about his teacher not really doing any teaching. Jeff also says "if you want to motivate them you got to get up and touch these kids hearts". This is an example of an implied duty a teacher inherits when he/she decide to become a teacher. A lot of students come from different backgrounds and situations. We are all no born in the perfect family or situation. In some ways, a teacher has to find a way to connect with her/his students to really get to them. It can be through finding their passion or weakness, starting from there and working towards their goals. Passion is like a pushing force. It's like it gives us something to look forward to. So if our education is not passionate enough or whoever is instructing is not in some way being credible towards students, students will begin to become careless about their education and see it as something that is not important in life.
Another reason why I think Jeff reacted like this is because he didn't want others education to be taken away as he felt his was. He already had his being taken as a joke, he probably didn't want others education to be taken as a joke. As a student, to be taken as a joke is the most hurtful and disrespectful thing. It gives us no sort of motivation to even try to go to school or even do homework. When people decide to become teachers, a tremendous amount of responsibility is given towards them. They are in charge of not only teaching, but in my opinion, of also of inspiring students. Inspiring them that school is vital and a key to success. If teachers are not being inspirational towards students, they are only pushing them away. As Jeff said it, "you got to get up and touch the kids heart". If teachers are only there because the only good job they could reach, then they are in the wrong position to handle "my countries future".
The last reason why I think Jeff reacted like this is because he felt he had to speak up. I f you think about how many situations there has been where you felt a teacher is being lazy and not compassionate about others, there is probably millions of stories out there about this sort of situation. Especially in four year colleges. I've heard stories of professors just assigning homework to their students and not speaking to them or trying to connect to them in any way. Yes, one can make the argument that it is not up to teachers to try and do extra to connect with students. That they are suppose to just show up and say what students are suppose to do and that students are just suppose to suck it up and do what they have to do. That idea seems irrelevant towards education. The big idea of education is that we're suppose to broaden our minds, how are we suppose to broaden our mentality when our teachers aren't doing what their suppose to? Last time I checked, the word "teacher" had the word "teach".
Jeff finally took the opportunity to speak up not only for himself, but for those millions of students that were too afraid to speak up. Every action has a consequence, good or bad. Jeff has definitely in my opinion, opened the eyes of a lot of school districts about this sort of "teaching technique".
Another reason why I think Jeff reacted like this is because he didn't want others education to be taken away as he felt his was. He already had his being taken as a joke, he probably didn't want others education to be taken as a joke. As a student, to be taken as a joke is the most hurtful and disrespectful thing. It gives us no sort of motivation to even try to go to school or even do homework. When people decide to become teachers, a tremendous amount of responsibility is given towards them. They are in charge of not only teaching, but in my opinion, of also of inspiring students. Inspiring them that school is vital and a key to success. If teachers are not being inspirational towards students, they are only pushing them away. As Jeff said it, "you got to get up and touch the kids heart". If teachers are only there because the only good job they could reach, then they are in the wrong position to handle "my countries future".
The last reason why I think Jeff reacted like this is because he felt he had to speak up. I f you think about how many situations there has been where you felt a teacher is being lazy and not compassionate about others, there is probably millions of stories out there about this sort of situation. Especially in four year colleges. I've heard stories of professors just assigning homework to their students and not speaking to them or trying to connect to them in any way. Yes, one can make the argument that it is not up to teachers to try and do extra to connect with students. That they are suppose to just show up and say what students are suppose to do and that students are just suppose to suck it up and do what they have to do. That idea seems irrelevant towards education. The big idea of education is that we're suppose to broaden our minds, how are we suppose to broaden our mentality when our teachers aren't doing what their suppose to? Last time I checked, the word "teacher" had the word "teach".
Jeff finally took the opportunity to speak up not only for himself, but for those millions of students that were too afraid to speak up. Every action has a consequence, good or bad. Jeff has definitely in my opinion, opened the eyes of a lot of school districts about this sort of "teaching technique".
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