[quote author=klewlis link=board=6;threadid=548;start=30#5388 date=1062806382]<br /><br />
And yet there definitely comes a point where you should be learning with or without the teachers. You are responsible for your own education, and if you put the effort in you can make good use of the time spent in school, regardless of how bad you might think the school is or how bad you think the teachers are (and in my experience they aren't nearly as bad as current students consider them to be 
<br />[/quote]<br /><br />My mother pays great amounts of taxes. These contribute to the teachers' wages.<br /><br />Now, if a teacher does absolute jack in school then people become angry.<br /><br />For example, I am relatively excellent at Science but it is indeed my weakness. I consider myself to be very bad and I know that I don't be a scientist. Perhaps for lack of zeal, that one can not see what happens often (whereas in Latin it's written in front of your face in visible letters!).<br />I would appreciate a good science teacher, to explain what actually DOES BE in certain things - whence crazy equations come and we are merely told "learn it". But at the end of the day, what the truck is it? one asks. Yet we receive nothing but ignorance. <br />In electricity, we accept that we'll never see what an electron is close up and how they move in accordance with more/less voltage etc. but all we want is a comprehensible demonstration to which one can relate. And this is the simplest of physics that one does.<br /><br />And with this almost unbelievably idle physics teacher (who is neither stupid nor old) we have just witnessed the difference in marks between his science and chemistry. (The chemistry teacher is fair - although she loves her nails and discsses make up with the whores at the front too often.)<br /><br />Teachers should be tested like pupils. Believe it or not, but there are in the school HUGE differences between same ability classes with different teachers. Blatant to an insane extent. Once a whole class asked the headteacher to come in and hear the difference between their class and that of us. We are both top set classes however with different teachers.<br />The grades go from A to Unclassified. 3/4 of their class had unclassified marks. Half the remaining pupils had C grades, a quarter D grades and 1 kid 'acheived' a B grade. <br />I was there out of my lesson for I had to see it. The headteacher was told seriously that this other maths teacher was awful and stupid etc. Which he is, believe me.<br /><br />But the bugger just replies jokingly, "Oh, you've all got something against teachers; I know if you had your way they'd all be fired!" Despite all their efforts pupils' grades suck because of their teacher. <br /><br />Next year the grades increase to the A* grade to which 5 people in each class should ascend.<br /><br />Not to be disrespectful klewlis amice, but in this case you are very wrong. Nobody can make use of an hour during which no work is set, one has a supply teacher and one permits no one to talk let alone learn anything. And there can be nothing productive done in watching an ancient cheap Macbeth film because the english teacher is lazy.<br /><br />Too much emphasis is placed on pupils' "REVISION" (aah! no) or "studying". If the teacher had actually educated the children properly then there would be no need. <br /><br />I learn much latin because Dr. Benjamin L. D'Ooge is an awesome teacher. I have no questions when I move through his work for his explanations are concise, and when something foreign appears, it is marked by means of a small index form size number which refers one to the bottom of the page. <br /><br /><br />