L'éducation Infini

Alas, the burden of the modern world.



Gail Goodwin once said, "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. "



Well, that was one hell of a preparation.



Recently, sitting for various test made me unable to write a new post, and that's why I am writing here today, to refresh the dreary outlook my blog had garnered while I was being reduced to being examined in the courtrooms of education.



Trying to earn a certificate of teaching is not easy, I say.



I had to seat through tests on Immanuel Kant and his Ethics, quantum mechanics of the working world order, physics of space anomalies, the Theory of Relativity, study of vulcanism and cultism, the Ark of the Covenant and its impact on the Christian and Islamic world, Napoléon Bonaparte's last word before his fall at Waterloo and more.



Well, after all these strenous test, you would think it was over, then they drop on you a mysterious test that if you failed, you would not pass the whole examination.



And where did the inspiration come from? Guess what?



Fritz Redl said, "Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show. "



So we must learn theatrics too, as a conclusion.



On a brighter note, I would be redeeming my certificate in a week's time, then would be flying over to Singapore to teach in a private institution.



But if Singapore is what it says here, then I better bow down to Robo-Lee...