The Internet Explorer

A long time ago I realized that teachers don’t have a clue of how students think.

This happened on one morning in a lecture class, where students was either slumping on the chair, dead asleep. Or half asleep, struggling to keep those eyelids open.

As the professor talked and talked and wrote on the board, he suddenly said,

I see that many of you are bored. I guess this material is too easy. Good. Very good.
It’s a sign that you’ve mastered the subject when you’re already bored of it.

Me and the other students suddenly woke up from dreamland, amazed by the sudden stupidity we have just witnessed. We stared at each other and gave each other a small grin.

This professor thought that a bunch of sleepyheads were hardworking students who were bored of a subject that was too easy. And this was a college professor.

Anonymous Hardworking Student.
This professor had the idea that all students are hardworking. Oh boy this idiot have no idea. We students are the equivalent of pigs. Lazy pigs that only start to run and work if you feed us shit.

Some teachers are copymachines. They copy whatever is on the textbook and then the students write them down in their notes without a clue what it means. Where’s the teaching ?

But then again we students have the tendency to point our fingers to the nearest teacher we can find instead of ourselves.

Teachers are like charcoal. They help you, a small fire to burn. But you are the fire, you yourself have the responsibility to burn things, see. So students must have the responsibility of studying themselves, the teacher can only help.

But most of us are lazy bums. We don’t want to be responsible. It’s not a strong sense of motivation. So what can we do to be successful in school ? Simple, have a strong sense of motivation to do whatever you need to do no matter how hard it would be.

Motivation is key to anything. There are 2 types of motivation in use in current schools.

The kiss my ass motivation. They pamper you with points and bribe you with goodies to study. But this backfires. In time students start to think they must be rewarded with something to study. This creates greedy pighumans, and schools can’t feed them forever. Then students revert to pigs.

The grade motivation. Getting an ‘A’ is a sure-fire way to make you feel good. It’s a great system for better than average students. But what about students that lack the preparation and skills needed ? One ‘F’ is a sure-fire way to lower down their sense of brains esteem.
Perhaps one would say that failure will motivate them to study harder.
But failure motivates one to quit school and jump down buildings later too.
It’s bad for weak students.

So the two types of motivation in use isn’t perfect. So here I would like to contribute a whole new system of motivation to use in school.

The kick ass motivation.
Yeah, I’m talking about competition. Students will be categorized into different levels of development. Then they will be taught to kick each other’s asses. (studying)So the students will try their best to kick each other’s asses and all students will improve no matter who wins. This is fair to weak students too, because they are kicking asses in the same level of development.The desire to compete and win against someone who is almost at the same level as you is a powerful one.Also, students can kick the teacher’s asses. It would bring the students and teachers closer. It’s a fun activity too.In conclusion, the kick ass system, kicks ass.I hope you realize by now that the kick ass term I am using here is about studying hard to show how awesome you are to other students ?

But then again I could see teachers kicking the ass of students. Immediate, effective shameful punishment.

Yeah, kicking ass could be an improvement of the old butt slapping punishment too !

It’s a perfect improvement of the school system, don’t you think ?

Studying kicks ass.