School, culture.
Now, on Server4 of travian, we are in the endgame now. The endgame sounds very hiong:
http://travianlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-complete-guide-to-endgame/
Enough said, I shouldn't bring in Travian to my blog, too. Just read if you've got the time to.
People always says stuff for a reason. For example, I wouldn't go talk to someone without a reason to. Humans are lazy pieces of shit, and won't do anything if they don't benefit from or feel good about it.
Every word is uttered/typed for a reason--to bring across a point. So yea, I don't really know what'm I trying to say now. Consider the case below:
There was a newspaper article I read years back about an experiment on a teacher's influence over students.
I can't remember the sexact details, but it was something along these lines:
They gathered like 100 students who were not so academically brilliant, and told a university professor that they were good/geniuses. Then, they gathered 100 students who were geniuses and told the same professor that they were not so academically brilliant.
When the results came out, the students who were treated as geniuses by the professor did better than the supposed real geniuses themselves.
Moral of the story? Treat the students like as if they are clever, and they would show the results.
Perhaps I messed up some of the details, because I don't remember that much about an article from such a long time back, but I remember that it has a name. Like 'Stockholm syndrome', it is 'something effect', though the something is something I can't remember. Hooops.
So what point was I trying to bring across? That teachers should teach us as if we were geniuses. In my case, they should acknowledge my intelligence and treat me fittingly.
Is there really a difference between RIJC and AJC? Yes, the name, the infrastructure, and perhaps the student quality. I don't find myself inferior to them in any other aspects other than academically, I think I'm rather proud to be in AJC, too. So why are the teachers trying to teach us that there's a difference between the top JCs and AJC?
I don't remember Mr. Lee Hak Boon doing that to us--in fact, he has always been proud of being the principal of Catholic High, and urges students to be socially confident. I remember him telling us about how he once saw a Cat High student shying away from an RI student, and how..weird he felt, because he doesn't think that there's a need to be 'shying away' from the supposed 'better schools'.
He treated us as gentlemen, and he treated us as intelligent students of our own right. Perhaps this is why we can do/did well academically.
I still don't like the ideas of having too many ponds though. But the results shows that we didn't do shabbily under his rule, so I can't understand why some people hate him so much.
So yea, I think that AJ should probably treat us as clever people, and the teachers should stop denying our intelligence and possible academic brilliance. It really dulls our senses. It's not motivational. It's stupid. Please stop that.
'Oh these questions are tough for you, no doubt. But it's PEANUTS to those RJ people!'
Nothing to say already, win liao.
I'm getting to dislike bio. Simply because of the workload, and the fact that Mr. Ong hounds us for homework, and that I'm a slacker and I'm barely surviving.
But it's still quite enjoyable/amusing/disturbing to hear people quarrelling about how they are not muggers.
(Teacher writes some cheem word on the board, everyone catch no ball.)
BK: Ah it's the XXXXXXX(I forgot the term already).
Me: Why is he using terms he never taught before?
BK: It's in the notes lahh..
JQ: It's not in the notes. I read it 4 times already.
BK: It's in the annex.
JQ: ZOMG BK, you're a mugger!
Quite amusing how muggers sling mud at each other, and don't like being called what they are.
Also, they have weird facial expressions whenever Mr. Ong praises RJ students for being more competent than us: They go angry, and their faces contort with mock-rage, and they utter stuff like 'Beat those bastards!!!111!!!'
I didn't know how to react. I mean, I have friends in those elite JCs, and I don't really go anti-elite-JCs, nor do I go like 'KILL THOSE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!', because I think of them as poor students trapped in this vicious cycle of study too. We're all being tortured, so why bother with such stupid competitions?
As I mentioned, I like taking pride in the things that I do, be it in games or academically.
But if I keep getting watered down by my teachers, I'd find it hard to be proud to be in AJC.
Seriously, although you might not be reading this, stop it.
-- 3/30/2009 06:32:00 PM
