As a Teacher Learner
In a previous blog post I spoke about who a teacher might be. I actually wrote that at a time when I felt I was, together with other fellow students, suffering from unjust treatment from some of our teachers. I wrote that article as a kind of imagining a better world where our teachers are more careful about our learning. I should say that because of such breed of teachers, I had to put off my graduate work until further notice. To be honest, it was not just that. I had to stop my graduate studies because of conflicting commitments of study and work, not least that I had to travel to other cities in order to do the kind of study I needed. I found that I could not be doing both things, studying and working, at the same time. I wasn't making much of my studies as I wished or as I should have. Neither was I doing the kind of great work that would satisfy my ambition as a language teacher. I was torn between the two most important things in my life: teaching English and studying Engli...