Let me brief you the story and you shall be clear of the entire situation.
Three weeks back I have just started my new semester and I have gotten a new part time Malay lecturer who also gives lectures in one of the local Universities, to guide me on my Financial paper. And no, by saying he is a Malay, I have no intention to discriminate or to be biased. Don't get me wrong.
Theres these two statements which he keeps emphasising throughout the classes, and these two statements never failed to drive me insane despite majority of my classmates getting really happy to hear those from him.
"All that I am teaching is for exam purposes. I ain't teaching anything other than what is coming out in the exam. So there is no need to read the other rubbish in the textbook. I will tell you what will be coming out in the exam."
Sounds like this paper is going to be really easy! Now frankly speaking, being a student, or picture yourself as though you are still a student, how many of you will be happy after listening to that statement?
If you are one of them, I feel sorry for you. Not only you, your parents, your country and whoever and whatever things that are related to you, be it directly or indirectly, simply because you show high dependency on others and you are so shallow to feel fortunate for not needing to learn more. Worse still, you show that you have no motivation in learning things and achieving higher in your life. To sum it all up, you cannot go far and you cant possibly contribute much to the society. I am definitely not happy. In fact I got really pissed. What do you mean when you say you are teaching for exam purposes only? I am not here just to sit and pass for my exam, but I am here hoping to get extra information and knowledge from you! What? You mean I wont need that in the future and all I have to know is how to answer the exam questions?
It's not only me. My panda also get all emo-ed because of this.There was this new classmate of mine from Malacca who asked him to explain further on certain topics because she did not quite understand what he was trying to say. And the lecturer had the cheeks to tell her that all that she needs to know is written in the book. Just memorise the book and she can surely pass her exams.
Doesn't that sound funny? -___- If I were her I would think the lecturer was really getting on my nerves, after all we students have the right to clarify things that we don't understand. Talk about being an experienced lecturer. Heh.
And then there is this one.
"As long as you co-operate with me, I guarantee and I assure you that all of you can get flying colours in the exams! I give you full marks! I give you A!"
Wow! I don't know about you. But that absolutely, definitely sounds like he was trying to bribe us. You don't get what I mean?
By means of co-operating, he demanded us to push our time table from the initial 1.30pm - 4.30pm to 5pm - 8pm just because he has gotten a new timetable in the University and he does not want to miss the chance of earning more income. That probably means that when all of you are happily walking out of your office and call it a day, I will be dragging myself into the class.
Even MBA or PhD students do not attend class from 9.30am till 8pm, I supposed. What more to say I am a full-time undergraduate. How could I not be pissed? Furthermore its not like I am staying only 5 minutes walking distance away from the college, it takes time to travel to and fro, ya know? And what am I supposed to do during my lunch break at 12.30noon to 5pm while waiting for the class?
So if we co-operate and if we agree to let him pushes the class 3 hours later, we are for sure to get an A from him. Now do you get what I mean already? And so I did what I could, and the management took action by changing the lecturer immediately. (Note: That too shows that after all the mangement is also allergic to the lecturer and his styles of teaching, else why would they easily changed the lecturer after so little persuasion when I have no power in influecing their decision making?) And because of that, some of the classmates got really annoyed and angry. WTF! (p/s: and yes, you, if you are reading this, I am that muthafucker who made your favourite lecturer go away. Talk about how shallow you are in the hope of securing your own results by depending on the tips that he is gonna give). They reckoned I've made their oh-so-good-he-sure- gives-me-an-A lecturer go away, and that I am inviting in a new lecturer who is very experienced, and one who will probably be more strict, one who gives more assignment, and one who forces them to swallow every single piece of information and knowledge that will be so unfamiliar to them, and one who might not give a single tip for exams.
Oh before that I sort of asked one of my classmates about what she thinks of the lecturer.
"I think he is a very good lecturer because I understand everything that he teaches! I've met worse one, we don't understand a wee bit of what he was trying to tell us throughout the whole semester. Very deep."
*falls off chair and hits own jaw*
Girl, you are supposed to understand those because those belong to the foundation level! Aren't you aware that we should be learning something which we have never learnt before? And if you don't understand the lecture, blame it on yourself for not doing revision and not asking. You have a mouth, an unsealed one, you know.
There, now I am even more sure that most of my classmates dislike me already for making their miserable lifes even more miserable.
On a different note, you might wonder which University is the above mentioned lecturer in. I'll give you hints.
He is in the University that only accepts Bumiputeras as students. That University had the highest rate of graduates unemployment among the other Universities in Malaysia last year
Now you go figure it out.
