Something tells me that I've written about this topic ones before. Maybe not exactly but something remotely relative. Anyway, I'll tell it again. It's never a bore.
In high school, I always excelled at Economics and Data processing. I was more like a star student in these subjects. You know that student who never gets below a 59/60, the one who the teacher subtracted the one mark from cause he/she just can't give you a perfect score? I was like that. Truly. I was great at other subjects, but these were the ones I always topped until I never had to deal with them anymore.
For me, it wasn't about passing these subjects. It wasn't even about my love for them cause I wouldn't ordinarily pick either of those as my best at first glance. What happened to physics or English? It was more about the teacher. Yeah, you read right.
One teacher took me on both subjects. Oh, I forgot(that's a lie, i didn't forget... I just wanted to be dramatic), and I could throw in computer science to the mix. He took us on all three subjects. I don't think I've ever met a classroom teacher who was as passionate about his teaching and subjects as him(with respect to my other teachers, who were amazing, by the way).
First of all, man knew his subjects like the back of his hand. You'll know when someone studied(not flipping through his notes) before coming to class. He was patient and practical with his teachings. I don't know if it's just me cause I know that there were students who struggled with his subject, but his teaching method was just right for me. He knew just how to explain and how to be sure his student followed up. He knew how to connect notes/questions between the class holding in that time and the previous one. And if he finds that, in course of teaching a new topic and by virtue of asking a question that relates to the previous topic, that a student had somehow forgotten, he dumped the new topic and went back to teach on the old one. At that time, students found it monotonous, boring, and exhausting. If only we knew that it was gold. If they only knew how those revisions and retouches helped it all stick.
And you'd assume that he would be behind in his scheme. Nah! Man was always the first teacher to get done with his workload on all three subjects that he handled. He was that good.
Right after high school, though, i didn't have to study them anymore. My current field isn’t so much related to them, so I've had no need for the courses. I don’t know if they interest me and i also don't feel bad about no longer having to learn them.cause, maybe, if i had moved on to study either one of them in university and was tutored by a lecturer who i feel doesn’t give me as much of the thrill that my high school teacher did, i may not perform so well and i may not have rhis interestingly good memories of the subject(and teacher) as i do now.
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