Monday, January 12, 2009
one fine day, 3 months before taking a chinese exam, a little boy sat down to have tuition with his tuition teacher.
"my boy," said the tuition teacher, "you need to practice your compositions, because they are your weakest link."
the teacher thus proceeded to give the boy a question to write about, and it went like this:
more and more singaporean students are relying on the help of tuition teachers to score well in their examinations. discuss your views on this issue.
about 45 minutes later, the boy finished writing the essay, and he passed it to the teacher to have a look.
the teacher read the first paragraph, which went:
an increasing number of singaporean students are relying on tuition teachers to score well in their examinations. while we cannot say that they are wrong in doing so, we must also realise that employing the help of tuition teachers alone is not the key to scoring well. rather, it is the effort on the part of the student himself which matters most. after all, the tuition teacher cannot sit for the examination on behalf of the student.
the tuition teacher looked through the rest of the essay, nodded in approval, and smiled at the boy, saying, "well done. this is a wonderful essay, and the point made is so true as well."
the boy smiled back at the teacher. guiltily.
let's just say that a ticking off is not exactly the way i would like to have my results welcomed, thank you very much.
it's not like i don't give a shit about how well (or badly) i did.
at this point let's just consign this result slip to the inner depths of my messy room.
HIGH five.
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