Now that I got that out of my chest, I can now rant about the educational system.
What Malaysia really needs are actual teachers, interested in teaching. Not teachers that are just there for money. Not teachers who are just there cos they got rejected from University.
My brother told me that the truth is, all our teachers are University rejects. Our teachers are underpaid rejects who have nowhere to go so they settle with teaching. And I can't say he's exactly wrong. If our teachers were so fantastic and awesome and all that, majority of parents will not send their children to tuition classes.
Yeah, you can argue that kids who go to tuition are the lazy ones who don't want to study alone.
Excuse me, but have you seen the text books? They're unsubstantial, they have NOTHING in them and when there is anything worth reading, it's all cryptic. I want you to go to the bookshop and see if anyone in their right mind will pay so much for reference books that are thick as hell, the print is so small I get cross eyed when I read and NO GUARANTEE THAT YOUR CHILD WILL GET SATISFACTORY RESULTS.
Besides, bloody exams do not ask questions from the text book. Exams ask questions from everywhere. Exams ask questions that no one sees in reference books.
So where do people turn to? Tuition centres! The teachers there are suitably experienced, they're paid a suitable amount that allows them to be committed. Tuition centres also have no disciplinarians that breathe under your neck. You can wear whatever shit you want to wear, you can bring whatever you want. But the syarat is that you don't use your phone in the class. That's okay, because the teachers are interesting.
This is what majority of teachers lack - charisma. If you ask me, charisma matters a lot in attracting a student's attention. Your style of talking contributes greatly to a student's attention. Everyone has a short attention span, and if you're the kind that already have boring looking face with basically no emotion in your eyes, and your voice is equally as dull, WHO WILL YOU ATTRACT? Who will want to listen to you talk?? Imagine if all politicians talked like that, newspaper reporters will be paid so much more higher for the effort they put in to stay awake.
It also doesn't help that teachers in Malaysia are horrible underpaid. No wonder they have no motivation. No money no talk, right?
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