You Must Believe
Extracted from internet story and editted using my own language i see fit :D. Hope that these stories will give inspirations and motivations for teachers-to-be and teachers ^_^
A few Years back, Professors from USA gathered in a meeting. They sigh sambil bertanya, mengapa pada generasi sekarang tidak muncul ilmuwan-ilmuwan atau tokoh hebat yg berkaliber seperti Einstein, Newton, Kennedy, dan sebagainya. Lalu mereka discussed about the reasons as to what makes Americans mundur berbanding sebelumnya. Akhirnya from the discussion, keluar satu kesimpulan bahawa mereka harus mendalami dunia pendidikan Asas (Basic Education). Maka pergilah professor2 tersebut mengunjungi satu sekolah dan mereka melakukan survey di sana. Murid-murid sekolah diminta menjawab soalan and the result will be checked. Dari hasil test tersebut seorang profesor berjumpa si Cikgu.
“Saya mau bertanya kepada Cikgu tentang these 2 students. Dari 40 students di kelas kenapa these 2 students mendpt ranking 39 dan 40?”
“Ya Prof, mereka anak yang degil! Suka ponteng dan bodoh. They deserved to be in the last ranking”
“Wah, U're wrong,” kata si Professor. “From our test result, these 2 students are in fact very bright. Mereka calon ilmuwan besar.” “Coba Cikgu perhatikan dua students ini. Kami akan datang setahun lagi untuk melihat hasilnya.”
Selepas team profesor itu pergi maka si Cikgu mulai memerhatikan dua anak yang selama ini dinilainya degil dan jarang diberikan perhatiannya. Kalau mereka tidak masuk kelas, si Cikgu terus menelefon atau mengunjungi rumahnya. Ketika markah retest mereka kurang memuaskan, si Cikgu dengan penuh tekun mengajar the two students again sehingga mereka mengerti. Dan akhirnya seperti yang dijanjikan, the next year, profesor-profesor tersebut datang lagi ke sekolah tersebut. “Bagaimana hasilnya, Cikgu?” tanya para professor.
“Betul prof. Seperti kata Professor, the students are very bright. Last year, ranking mereka are 39 dan 40, sekarang menjadi ranking 3 dan 4. Bagaimana professor tahu anak ini cerdas?” tanya si Cikgu. Profesor tersebut menjawab, “Sebenarnya kami telah berbohong dalam mengadakan test. Kami tidak melakukan apa-apa. Kami hanya ingin tahu, kalau Cikgu tekun mendidik dan percaya bahawa ur students can do it, then they can really do it! And this is the result.”
Subhanallah. Rupanya ketekunan dan kepercayaan adalah kunci kejayaan teachers for students. Students are the same. That is what happened when Master Shifu tries to teach Panda to become one of the Dragon Warrior in the Film "Kungfu Panda". Ketika Master Oogway memilih Panda to be Pendekar Naga yang bakal melawan penjahat Ta Lung, semua ragu2 termasuk Master Shifu. Master Oogway hanya mengatakan, “There is no accident. You must believe…” lalu pergi diikuti hembusan angin. Kita tidak mungkin berhasil mendidik dan mengembangkan students we believe in the kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh students tersebut, and of course we should believe in our ability to teach them also.The way Master Shifu taught Panda was very interesting. If you think about it, how can a big, fat Panda become so good at Kungfu and become a hero? Master Shifu made use of Panda's favourite hobby which is eating as the “titik masuk” untuk melatih kungfu. Wif Panda's training fit with his wants, plus Master Shifu's incredible beliefs of Panda's ability, Panda became a powerful Kungfu Master who was able to defeat Ta Lung. Every students have their own uniqueness and ability. The job of a teacher is to help discover, improve and motivate students to achieve their ambitions. We can take examples from any tokoh-tokoh besar, at the start, they still have a mentor. Mike Tyson, anak jalanan yang menjadi peninju hebat because there was someone who knew that he had talent! A teacher in educating students should have that, believe in urself, ur students, give motivations and teach the students ur knowledge wif great passion.
Lastly, there is NO COINCIDENCE. Yang ada hanya kesungguhan seorang murid yang dibimbing seorang guru. Seperti kata master Oogway, “There is no accident….”
Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.
When he returned my paper, I was shocked. There was a big red X through each of my answers. I had failed. There had to be some mistake! I had written down exactly what Mr. Whitson said. Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened?
Very simple, Mr. Whitson explained. He had made up all the stuff about the cattywampus. There had never been any such animal. The information in our notes was, therefore, incorrect. Did we expect credit for incorrect answers?
Needless to say, we were outraged. What kind of test was this? And what kind of teacher?
We should have figured it out, Mr. Whitson said. After all, at the every moment he was passing around the cattywampus skull (in truth, a cat's), hadn't he been telling us that no trace of the animal remained? He had described its amazing night vision, the color of its fur and any number of other facts he couldn't have known. He had given the animal a ridiculous name, and we still hadn't been suspicious. The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in his grade book, he said. And they were.
Mr. Whitson said he hoped we would learn something from this experience. Teachers and textbooks are not infallable. In fact, no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep, and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.
Every class was an adventure with Mr. Whitson. I can still remember some science periods almost from beginning to end. On day he told us that his Volkswagon was a living organism. It took us two full days to put together a refutation he would accept. He didn't let us off the hook until we had proved not only that we knew what an organism was but also that we had the fortitude to stand up for the truth.
We carried our brand-new skepticism into all our classes. This caused problems for the other teachers, who weren't used to being challenged. Our history teacher would be lecturing about something, and then there would be clearings of the throat and someone would say ``cattywampus.''
If I'm ever asked to propose a solution to the problems in our schools, it will be Mr. Whitson. I haven't made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr. Whitson's class gave me and my classmates something just as important: the courage to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong. He also showed us that you can have fun doing it.
Not everyone sees the value in this. I once told an elementary school teacher about Mr. Whitson. The teacher was appalled. ``He shouldn't have tricked you like that,'' he said. I looked that teacher right in the eye and told him that he was wrong.
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A few Years back, Professors from USA gathered in a meeting. They sigh sambil bertanya, mengapa pada generasi sekarang tidak muncul ilmuwan-ilmuwan atau tokoh hebat yg berkaliber seperti Einstein, Newton, Kennedy, dan sebagainya. Lalu mereka discussed about the reasons as to what makes Americans mundur berbanding sebelumnya. Akhirnya from the discussion, keluar satu kesimpulan bahawa mereka harus mendalami dunia pendidikan Asas (Basic Education). Maka pergilah professor2 tersebut mengunjungi satu sekolah dan mereka melakukan survey di sana. Murid-murid sekolah diminta menjawab soalan and the result will be checked. Dari hasil test tersebut seorang profesor berjumpa si Cikgu.
“Saya mau bertanya kepada Cikgu tentang these 2 students. Dari 40 students di kelas kenapa these 2 students mendpt ranking 39 dan 40?”
“Ya Prof, mereka anak yang degil! Suka ponteng dan bodoh. They deserved to be in the last ranking”
“Wah, U're wrong,” kata si Professor. “From our test result, these 2 students are in fact very bright. Mereka calon ilmuwan besar.” “Coba Cikgu perhatikan dua students ini. Kami akan datang setahun lagi untuk melihat hasilnya.”
Selepas team profesor itu pergi maka si Cikgu mulai memerhatikan dua anak yang selama ini dinilainya degil dan jarang diberikan perhatiannya. Kalau mereka tidak masuk kelas, si Cikgu terus menelefon atau mengunjungi rumahnya. Ketika markah retest mereka kurang memuaskan, si Cikgu dengan penuh tekun mengajar the two students again sehingga mereka mengerti. Dan akhirnya seperti yang dijanjikan, the next year, profesor-profesor tersebut datang lagi ke sekolah tersebut. “Bagaimana hasilnya, Cikgu?” tanya para professor.
“Betul prof. Seperti kata Professor, the students are very bright. Last year, ranking mereka are 39 dan 40, sekarang menjadi ranking 3 dan 4. Bagaimana professor tahu anak ini cerdas?” tanya si Cikgu. Profesor tersebut menjawab, “Sebenarnya kami telah berbohong dalam mengadakan test. Kami tidak melakukan apa-apa. Kami hanya ingin tahu, kalau Cikgu tekun mendidik dan percaya bahawa ur students can do it, then they can really do it! And this is the result.”
Subhanallah. Rupanya ketekunan dan kepercayaan adalah kunci kejayaan teachers for students. Students are the same. That is what happened when Master Shifu tries to teach Panda to become one of the Dragon Warrior in the Film "Kungfu Panda". Ketika Master Oogway memilih Panda to be Pendekar Naga yang bakal melawan penjahat Ta Lung, semua ragu2 termasuk Master Shifu. Master Oogway hanya mengatakan, “There is no accident. You must believe…” lalu pergi diikuti hembusan angin. Kita tidak mungkin berhasil mendidik dan mengembangkan students we believe in the kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh students tersebut, and of course we should believe in our ability to teach them also.The way Master Shifu taught Panda was very interesting. If you think about it, how can a big, fat Panda become so good at Kungfu and become a hero? Master Shifu made use of Panda's favourite hobby which is eating as the “titik masuk” untuk melatih kungfu. Wif Panda's training fit with his wants, plus Master Shifu's incredible beliefs of Panda's ability, Panda became a powerful Kungfu Master who was able to defeat Ta Lung. Every students have their own uniqueness and ability. The job of a teacher is to help discover, improve and motivate students to achieve their ambitions. We can take examples from any tokoh-tokoh besar, at the start, they still have a mentor. Mike Tyson, anak jalanan yang menjadi peninju hebat because there was someone who knew that he had talent! A teacher in educating students should have that, believe in urself, ur students, give motivations and teach the students ur knowledge wif great passion.
Lastly, there is NO COINCIDENCE. Yang ada hanya kesungguhan seorang murid yang dibimbing seorang guru. Seperti kata master Oogway, “There is no accident….”
Best Teacher I Ever Had
by David Owen
Extracted from Reader's Digest (Asian Edition), April 1991, pp. 47-48.
by David Owen
Extracted from Reader's Digest (Asian Edition), April 1991, pp. 47-48.
Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.
When he returned my paper, I was shocked. There was a big red X through each of my answers. I had failed. There had to be some mistake! I had written down exactly what Mr. Whitson said. Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened?
Very simple, Mr. Whitson explained. He had made up all the stuff about the cattywampus. There had never been any such animal. The information in our notes was, therefore, incorrect. Did we expect credit for incorrect answers?
Needless to say, we were outraged. What kind of test was this? And what kind of teacher?
We should have figured it out, Mr. Whitson said. After all, at the every moment he was passing around the cattywampus skull (in truth, a cat's), hadn't he been telling us that no trace of the animal remained? He had described its amazing night vision, the color of its fur and any number of other facts he couldn't have known. He had given the animal a ridiculous name, and we still hadn't been suspicious. The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in his grade book, he said. And they were.
Mr. Whitson said he hoped we would learn something from this experience. Teachers and textbooks are not infallable. In fact, no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep, and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.
Every class was an adventure with Mr. Whitson. I can still remember some science periods almost from beginning to end. On day he told us that his Volkswagon was a living organism. It took us two full days to put together a refutation he would accept. He didn't let us off the hook until we had proved not only that we knew what an organism was but also that we had the fortitude to stand up for the truth.
We carried our brand-new skepticism into all our classes. This caused problems for the other teachers, who weren't used to being challenged. Our history teacher would be lecturing about something, and then there would be clearings of the throat and someone would say ``cattywampus.''
If I'm ever asked to propose a solution to the problems in our schools, it will be Mr. Whitson. I haven't made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr. Whitson's class gave me and my classmates something just as important: the courage to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong. He also showed us that you can have fun doing it.
Not everyone sees the value in this. I once told an elementary school teacher about Mr. Whitson. The teacher was appalled. ``He shouldn't have tricked you like that,'' he said. I looked that teacher right in the eye and told him that he was wrong.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. (Aristotle)
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