Do not expect much in this age

SA,

I was checking my last post (The one written by me), It was at 14/1/2009. WooW.  More than a year passed and I have not blogged anything. Too bad , will try to do a back. , I have many thoughts to talk about.

Today post is a bit new than others. I used to talk about my thoughts & situation.  This time, I am blogging about a change in mind. Change in my thoughts, that definitely will affects my attitude in next stages.

BTW, I am a person who thinks much in his thoughts and update them.  So, be careful. You may read a post for me about my opinion in something, and nowadays you may find me have totally a different opinion! Do not know either this is good or not!

OK let’s focus on the updated thought. Today, I have 1.5 year experience in teaching; I passed with a mix of feelings, between too frustrated & too happy.

Why too frustrated? From the college course! Much routine! and the worst, the students. Most of students attend for catching more grades. Rarely meeting who come to learn new thing.  Rarely meeting interested students. Most of them come for grades (Sorry, but specially girls). Sometimes you are explaining very trivial lesson, and you told them what you will describe. A simple expected thing, should be that, the best students [In terms of grades] will not come, they can manage such lesson in home, in more efficient way [in terms of time], although so, you find them come (Although no attendance).

Why too happy? From ACM activity! I backed to train juniors. The best thing, you find yourself facing around 50 student, 30 of them may be too interested, pushing you to do your best to learn them, and this time, No grades!

I met my favorite TA, Eng Wahab, and talked with him about that, he told me he like teaching and is too happy when he can change a student. He mentioned his last experiment in algorithms course, and how he managed to catch some students, and push them to think & solve [shal el torab elly fe dem3'hom]. Some times you meet very good people, they just wait who help, push and motivate.

2 days ago, I was thinking about the sheikh in mosque. Who are the attendees? People in such bad age, are doing terrible things in their life. An age where even basics are understood wrongly, people acting with their own definitions for what is right and what is wrong!

If the sheikh thought that after his lesson most of these people will change, then he does not know anything about the hard task he accepted to do. If he get bored from repeating and trying to motivate and warn again & again then he is in the wrong place!

I remembered “لئن يهدي الله بك رجل واحد خير لك من حمر النعم صدق الرسول الكريم”. That is too important point, accepting being one of those who have to change/educate others is a hard task. If you accepted it, do not expect much. You will not influence hundreds of them. But, you still can change some of them & can remind others that they can change.

Doing a simple mapping, college like mosque, sheikh like teacher and mosque attendee like students. A teacher faces same situation. This means a bigger challenge. You wanna affect more students, inspire & motivate them. Whatever through college or private course or activities, it is your turn to do it. you accepted such role, and you have to do it in the right way!

That is my new thought; I will not be frustrated again when having a class. Just doing my best and trying to guide as much as possible.

Hope this article ideas are organized, and hope my updated thoughts are not too wrong, else they will be changed again

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