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I'll start off bluntly - our teachers are disappointed. Very disappointed. I will tell you why in an equally blunt way in a few paragraphs, but in the meantime let me dictate to you the meaning of the word 'confidence' and the quote 'to wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are'.
Basically, a typical faculty would have one professor and a few dozen if not more students. In each one they would have a form of confidence in themselves. That is, everyone will pull their own weight, with the professor understanding each student clearly. The divide between the student and his or her mentor must not be tangible. If that is not possible, it should be, in the least, be crystal clear.
In such a faculty, trust is a factor of confidence which emulates the amount of focus one delivers to a given topic or subject. If the trust does not exist, which would be the case if the divide was far too opaque, then the professor will not understand the student no matter what he or she does. That brick wall has to be broken down and buried; the borders must not exist.
Now, turn your attention to the quote I plucked out from the back of my mind. "To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are" means a lot more than it sounds. This piece of quote stems from the fact that everyone has to be unique (with the fine exception that is of natural genetic variation) because we just are that - unique. And by being unique, we will be able to display quantified talents and specific faculties of intelligence. The entire reason we grow up is so that we can alter and adapt to our environments and situations.
Because of this, we are never the same as we were three, four, five, ten years ago. Humans are like ecosystems or BIOS - the basic input and output may be the same, and the resultant may be similar, but the faculties always change - the key basic principles may still maintain a core value while the temporary quotas alter.
In other words, predicting human advancement in the micro scale by formula or anecdote is impossible because they NEVER FACTOR THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS.
So back to my initial disposition: The teachers are very disappointed because what the cold, mindless and incredulously stupid computers predicted never came true. Based on their calculations, somehow, our PSLE scores, Secondary 2 grades, Secondary 3, 4 Mid-Year grades and whatever the sh!t that they threw in reflect our destined grades in the Preliminary Examinations.
Oh, yeah. The sh!t really hit the fan.
Our teachers have forgotten the true meaning of human expectancy and interaction. They would have known better had they not placed their hopes based on the predictions of a stupid formula. They would have not been so disappointed in our failure had they disregarded the cheap scams and instead focused on what we, as students, were truly capable of.
The attention they gave us? It was null. It was all based on the results of a woeful miscalculation. They think we are capable of so much. They gave us less than what they gave the other classes that the computer mistakenly perceived as 'worse off'. So much less.
Now what do they do? They blame the teachers for their ignorance. Surely, they deserve the blame. But something like that can't come without a price - somehow, the teachers blame us. Make us feel guilty. Tell us all the achievements others have made that we could not. Open your damned eyes, you idiots. Whose the one expecting knowledge, and whose the one delivering it? Cursory glimpses will not do.
Surely we deserve the same amount of attention in everything as others do. We are, as you said, after all, humans.
So open your eyes, comrades; wake up. Wake up... and smell the ashes.
---
To Tom: κ is 2.75 laaaa.
[[ArsH]] at 5:10 PM
Basically, a typical faculty would have one professor and a few dozen if not more students. In each one they would have a form of confidence in themselves. That is, everyone will pull their own weight, with the professor understanding each student clearly. The divide between the student and his or her mentor must not be tangible. If that is not possible, it should be, in the least, be crystal clear.
In such a faculty, trust is a factor of confidence which emulates the amount of focus one delivers to a given topic or subject. If the trust does not exist, which would be the case if the divide was far too opaque, then the professor will not understand the student no matter what he or she does. That brick wall has to be broken down and buried; the borders must not exist.
Now, turn your attention to the quote I plucked out from the back of my mind. "To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are" means a lot more than it sounds. This piece of quote stems from the fact that everyone has to be unique (with the fine exception that is of natural genetic variation) because we just are that - unique. And by being unique, we will be able to display quantified talents and specific faculties of intelligence. The entire reason we grow up is so that we can alter and adapt to our environments and situations.
Because of this, we are never the same as we were three, four, five, ten years ago. Humans are like ecosystems or BIOS - the basic input and output may be the same, and the resultant may be similar, but the faculties always change - the key basic principles may still maintain a core value while the temporary quotas alter.
In other words, predicting human advancement in the micro scale by formula or anecdote is impossible because they NEVER FACTOR THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS.
So back to my initial disposition: The teachers are very disappointed because what the cold, mindless and incredulously stupid computers predicted never came true. Based on their calculations, somehow, our PSLE scores, Secondary 2 grades, Secondary 3, 4 Mid-Year grades and whatever the sh!t that they threw in reflect our destined grades in the Preliminary Examinations.
Oh, yeah. The sh!t really hit the fan.
Our teachers have forgotten the true meaning of human expectancy and interaction. They would have known better had they not placed their hopes based on the predictions of a stupid formula. They would have not been so disappointed in our failure had they disregarded the cheap scams and instead focused on what we, as students, were truly capable of.
The attention they gave us? It was null. It was all based on the results of a woeful miscalculation. They think we are capable of so much. They gave us less than what they gave the other classes that the computer mistakenly perceived as 'worse off'. So much less.
Now what do they do? They blame the teachers for their ignorance. Surely, they deserve the blame. But something like that can't come without a price - somehow, the teachers blame us. Make us feel guilty. Tell us all the achievements others have made that we could not. Open your damned eyes, you idiots. Whose the one expecting knowledge, and whose the one delivering it? Cursory glimpses will not do.
Surely we deserve the same amount of attention in everything as others do. We are, as you said, after all, humans.
So open your eyes, comrades; wake up. Wake up... and smell the ashes.
---
To Tom: κ is 2.75 laaaa.
[[ArsH]] at 5:10 PM
Name: Mohamad Arshad (Robert Greyscale)
Age: 15 years old
Date of Birth: Yanuary20 1993
Horoscope Sign: Capricorn
Anti-Religist
Libertarian
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Woodlands Primary
(00 - 05)
Unity Secondary
(06 - 09)
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