Billions Of Billious Blue Blistering Barnacles

Quoting Peter O’Toole (Anton Ego) from “Ratatouille”–

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.

Makes one think….

I went to talk to a teacher today about a question that he hadn’t checked in my paper. I was dismissed right away without him even glancing at my paper.

All my life I have known Teachers to be these high-headed, arrogant, for the most part ignorant tyrants. Now that may sound a bit exaggerated , but I hope my point gets through.

Ask anyone and they would be able to count the number of polite and understanding teachers on there hands. Yes, there are a few teachers who are all those things, but most of them aren’t…..

At least the ones I have seen have a major ego issue. You challenge there authority in any way, shape or form, and Ka-Boom….you’re dead. Sleeping with the fishes.

I never really understood the reason for this attitude. One doesn’t have to stamp others to show his authority.. This is all the more important for a Student-Teacher relationship. A kid who has had a bad experience with a teacher early in life generally looses his respect for them gradually. It happened to me.

Teachers need to be strict. But strictness is not synonymous with anger, egoism, arrogance.

This sounds like a very biased post. It isn’t. I have come across some teachers who were truly great. Polite yet strict. People who knew there subjects properly.

But sadly most of my “Guru’s” have not been ideal. Far from it. And it has, unfortunately left a lasting effect on me. My first reaction towards a teacher is not respect anymore. It’s not even anger or hatred.(This is too strong a word….but couldn’t find anything else which would have been suitable.)

It’s indifferent ignorance….