“The secret of education lies in respecting the student.”

I handed out my resignation letter yesterday. The main reasons that I take action is that first, the social worker always shout loudly/yell at at students who made mistakes including writing words untidy, forgetting to get signatures from parents and homeroom teachers, and some tiny little mistakes. What I saw in my class is totally different  than what I have learned. I always wondered that we teach kids to respect teachers and peers, but did the social worker respect the kids? The reasons that I chose to leave is that I no longer need to tolerate this unequal power of the adult-children relationships and I cannot change the rigid culture of A-apple,B-banana, C-coconut only. Learning is supposed to be flexible and multiple. There are possibilities that A-ant, B-ball, C-cat, etc. The kids are poor because they have no choice of their learning; it is rote memorization purely. The progress is that they can memorize the pronunciation and the words, but they cannot apply the knowledge the have learned.

As a teacher, I firmly believe that this need to stop because even I ,myself, learned English 20 yers ago, I owned the learning agency of my fun English class. We cannot return to the improper teaching methodology again otherwise all the efforts in our educational reform are in vain.