UNEDUCATED
YEARS
Remembering the first of
the school is not the awesome but also sarcastic. I was very exhausted like
every other student. It’s beginning of
the education life after the six years played at home and rooming in the streets.
During five years, I had a teacher in elementary school. Everything was alright
for the first three years; my teacher was trying to teach as writing and
reading. Also we were painting, playing hide and seek, etc. But soon, my forth
class was beginning of my worst learning experiences.
Firstly, my first teacher was my
teacher at elementary school. In basics, he taught us reading and writing. He
was good at this topic. Until I came to fourth grade, our courses were English,
music, science of sociality, math and even physical exercises. I expected my
teacher to be good enough at all these courses but he was not like I expected.
His knowledge about English was the same as the children in third grades. He
was teaching us English while reading from the books. He had no knowledge about
music; I was able to play a block flute for the last two years of my elementary
school. If you have no knowledge of what you are teaching and you are reading
them from the books, what can you expect from the students?
Secondly, while my teacher was
trying to teach a lesson, if he couldn’t manage to students, he could easily
lose his temper. For instance; I had a
friend who was taking math course whose teacher, also mine teacher, asked him
to multiply the number seven and not even the teacher knew the answer obviously
the student doesn’t know as well. So the teacher hit the student with the
scale. My friend fell in to subclass because he didn’t know math maybe he could
be good at music. How fair, to teach something with violence.
Now I am studying in ELT department
in university. I think it is a respond to my elementary teacher. Perhaps,
because he couldn’t be a good English teacher I wanted to prove that I could be
better than him. I am not here because of him. I am here for the future generation
and maybe for my siblings. I don’t want them to be uneducated like me. Always,
you should be afraid of people who insist that they know everything. In fact,
there is mirror front of them.
Koray AKCA
