Thursday, October 05, 2006

watching my fellow classmates presenting in front of the whole class makes me recall all the public speaking experiences that i have had in the past, especially during sec school days.. i had a pretty serious public speaking phobia and i always try my best to avoid it as much as possible. as much as i want to avoid it, the more the teachers like to pick on me. it's horrible coz some of the teachers(particularly English teachers) themselves are horrible. one of them particularly picked on me in front of the whole class as if it's some kind of a joke. is this the way to teach students? is it right to destroy a student's confidence right in front of everyone? i think there is a serious problem in S'pore(or perhaps Asian) education system then. i think teachers should change their attitude. isn't it better to give students more praises and encouragement to build up a student's confidence? if i were to be given that kind of encouragement back in school days, i believe i would have overcome my stage fright long ago. nobody understood how much humiliation i went through that time coz most of them have no such problem at all. and many students actually like that teacher. i puke. anyway, that's the reason why i have hoped that my friends would have given me more encouragement instead. coz i have received far too much criticism in the past. so when the other optom classmates were so encouraging.. i felt really grateful.. really really grateful to them coz no one else has given me such encouragement before. and it sort of builds up my confidence a lot. so i realised how important praises and encouragement are. no wonder the people here are so much more out-going than Asians. the education system differs too much.

rong, i believe u can be a much better teacher than that in the future. dun disappoint me ;)

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caryn out
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