...superhuman?
Now, thinking further on my previous post on the wording of the 'deaf-silent' beggar of yesterday in his note; and how over-the-top emotional that one was - I've decided I'd do something I had already decided not to.
Now, this sounds overly dramatic, and yes - it is. But I fooled you into reading on, now didn't I?
But anyway - I had decided not to give any comments whatsoever to the current debate at school, raised by a post on my previous classmate Jostein's blog. Now, the post is in Norwegian, but the highlights are as follows:
Was it correct of our teacher to use terms such as “fuck of the night” and “sex in the ass”, when discussing sex-related articles in the school's online newspaper? He thinks not. In his opinion, a teacher should be an authority, to which you could ask questions and expect to receive knowledgeable, thought-trough answers.
He also voted for the Conservatives during the school elections.
ok, I agree that a teacher should be a person from which you should be able to get reasonably good advice, and who should be knowledgeable within the field their educating.
However, I'm not quite sure that a teacher should be the kind of moral mentor he portrait in his article. Yes, I think any teacher should have basic moral standards in order to do a good job. But that doesn't mean that a teacher necessarily has to be above his or her pupils...
He also writes that he wished he'd signed up for a current reality-show, where modern, urban youth are sent 'back in time' to the 50's school system. But Jostein - I'm sorry.. The 1950's are over. I'm not sorry, however, that I can't see how that should be a bad thing.
In my world, when you reach a certain age (and I think 17 is well above that age), you should have the mental capability to make up your own opinions about things. You still need a mentor to teach you things you didn't know, and how to use them in practice. Moral standards, however should be learned by now.
Therefore I think that the role of the teacher should change, after a certain number of years in the school system. During the first years, I think that the teacher should remain as unpolitical as possible, and stay put on the “Everyone's created equal, and we should respect everyone and every thing, as long as it's not wrong” and soforth...
But as children goes over from being children, to being youths and then adults, and the pupils learn more about the influence their under from i.e their teachers - I think it's in the general objectivity's best interest, that the pupils get to know where their mentors come from.
Now, Trud Bu (the teacher mentioned in Jostein's blogpost) is known to be open and up-front about her own opinions. She's also immensely competent in her field (which is media), and she's also very passionate about her work.
When you reach mid-teens, I think it's important to have a mentor who dares to utter her opinion, as long as it's a valid one, on a subject; and who's honest enough to her students, not to censor herself because of irregularly high moral standards.
If 'fuck of the night' is an immoral expression to you, it should be so from anyones lips - not just your teachers'.
Your teachers are not supposed to be superhumans!
But anyway - I had decided not to give any comments whatsoever to the current debate at school, raised by a post on my previous classmate Jostein's blog. Now, the post is in Norwegian, but the highlights are as follows:
Was it correct of our teacher to use terms such as “fuck of the night” and “sex in the ass”, when discussing sex-related articles in the school's online newspaper? He thinks not. In his opinion, a teacher should be an authority, to which you could ask questions and expect to receive knowledgeable, thought-trough answers.
He also voted for the Conservatives during the school elections.
ok, I agree that a teacher should be a person from which you should be able to get reasonably good advice, and who should be knowledgeable within the field their educating.
However, I'm not quite sure that a teacher should be the kind of moral mentor he portrait in his article. Yes, I think any teacher should have basic moral standards in order to do a good job. But that doesn't mean that a teacher necessarily has to be above his or her pupils...
He also writes that he wished he'd signed up for a current reality-show, where modern, urban youth are sent 'back in time' to the 50's school system. But Jostein - I'm sorry.. The 1950's are over. I'm not sorry, however, that I can't see how that should be a bad thing.
In my world, when you reach a certain age (and I think 17 is well above that age), you should have the mental capability to make up your own opinions about things. You still need a mentor to teach you things you didn't know, and how to use them in practice. Moral standards, however should be learned by now.
Therefore I think that the role of the teacher should change, after a certain number of years in the school system. During the first years, I think that the teacher should remain as unpolitical as possible, and stay put on the “Everyone's created equal, and we should respect everyone and every thing, as long as it's not wrong” and soforth...
But as children goes over from being children, to being youths and then adults, and the pupils learn more about the influence their under from i.e their teachers - I think it's in the general objectivity's best interest, that the pupils get to know where their mentors come from.
Now, Trud Bu (the teacher mentioned in Jostein's blogpost) is known to be open and up-front about her own opinions. She's also immensely competent in her field (which is media), and she's also very passionate about her work.
When you reach mid-teens, I think it's important to have a mentor who dares to utter her opinion, as long as it's a valid one, on a subject; and who's honest enough to her students, not to censor herself because of irregularly high moral standards.
If 'fuck of the night' is an immoral expression to you, it should be so from anyones lips - not just your teachers'.
Your teachers are not supposed to be superhumans!
Jeg er fra norge: Jeg skriver norsk.
Okay; lærere er ikke supermennesker. Det er umulig. Men det vil ikke si at en lærer er min venn. Jeg hadde reagert uansett hvem som hadde sagt: Knullet for kvelden.
Det er bra. Men hvorfor da bruke en hel post på at en lærer sier det?
Lizzom, d e jo teit at leråre seje d
Siden det er teit, og det irriterte meg.
Pluss at jeg ikke har så mye å skrive om, egentlig.