This is not a film review

Isai 2021-12-18 08:01:09

I am a teacher at a private university. I have a low level, short time, not many students, bad school, and low remuneration.
The student division here is very serious. The rich go to school and drive the Cadillac, and the poor students don't pay the full tuition until graduation. There are girls in the school who go for aid dating. Every Friday night they go to work in a hotel in Sanlitun in a black car at the door. There are mentally ill teenagers in the school who walk around the corridors of the school with their hands behind their backs every day, like a middle-aged leader with a big belly. Parents of a student can only go back to China to see their children once in three years. During the entire university period, this student took the money that he could not spend and fights against countless racks, and then went to tomorrow when he didn't know where he was. In the past two years, students died unexpectedly both inside and outside the school. I don't know the dead children. I only saw their head teacher crying like a wet puppet at the teachers' meeting.
These are not the plots in the movie. I think any teacher will come into contact with these people and these things in his career. Teachers often joked that a school with iron hits, teachers and students with flowing water.

I am a non-"serious" teacher myself.
I teach computers, but I let them off rock music in class and told them what Woodstock is. At the beginning, the boys said that everyone was naked at Woodstock, so cool. After I finished the introduction, the boy asked me where I could hear the songs sung by the singers on Woodstock.
In a class two weeks ago, a girl sat there complaining that the diploma of a private school was not strong enough. She felt that she was fooled by her parents, and her parents were fooled by the school again. I told her my story, told my friend's story, and told her that the important thing is not what you get, but what you have. Then I specially approved that if she finds something that she is willing to work for and is more important than a diploma, then she can not come to my class in the future, or she can do it in my class without disturbing other students. Anything she wants to do. Later in last week's class, I saw that she kept writing below, novels or what? I don't know, but she looks very happy.

What am I trying to say?
Oh, by the way, as a so-called "educator", I also hate schools. Because it is a private company, I watched too many children being sent into the machine, and then they all looked the same. They were holding various certificates and certificates and rushing around at the job fair. Then in the hottest summer, sweating profusely, he said to me, "I only found out when I went out to find a job. I don't know anything about JB!".
What I want to say is that today's education and our traditional "education" have gradually drifted away, and today's schools are more and more like "enterprises". In our admissions department, students are not called students but "customers" in their mouths.

In fact, many teachers nowadays, it should be said that most of them are still very good. They are willing to teach knowledge, they are willing to tell students their life experience, and let them make their own judgment and absorption. They encourage free thought and free speech. It's just that each teacher uses a different method. Some are harsh, some are indulgent, some are persuasive, and some are chattering. This is why we scolded teachers, but long after graduation, remembering those teachers we scolded, we still miss them in our hearts.

After talking for a long time, I actually didn't get the point at all. Because this movie reminds me of a lot of powerlessness and loneliness as a teacher, and it also reminds me of a lot of comfort and happiness as a teacher.
But after all, I still feel that I am not suitable to be a traditional teacher. I have become tired and tired of a lot of formal and duck-filling work. So, sooner or later, I will bid farewell to this industry.

One point I often talk to students in class is: what knowledge you have learned in my class is not the most important thing. If you have learned it, it is just a class. There are many things you have to learn in your life, but you must understand yourself. Know what you want to do, what you like, and what kind of person you want to be. And if you want to understand yourself, you must understand the world, understand other people and other things, and all that you don't yet know is what you want to explore in the future. Happy yourself and then the world, knowing the world and then confidant. This sentence is for you and for myself.

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Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?