29 August 2006

Passion and Comfort Zones

What was school about today? Coming in early in the morning to print the Teacher Pen Pic document and trying hard to complete the CA2 scripts for the students in case holidays come. Guess i am probably not going to finish them in time although it would have already been done if i can just sit down and mark the moment i reach home and not do anything else.

But that was hypothetical. Tough for a normal human being to do the life-reducing maneuvers.

So as usual, i try to do the things that would not be life-reducing and trying my best to mark the assignments... made the 2 sec 3 classes do some exercises (wonder if i can ever find time to mark them) and then it was going home time.

Talked with colleagues over many things at work, how to instill discipline and make students achieve better results. It's indeed tough running a school nowadays, with the many awards and agendas running amok in the system. Passion clashes with comfort zones and you might just end up offending the whole world in your pursuit of excellence. Guess it is just not easy to even do the right thing.

And then we are young as we thought ourselves to be and thus my only conclusion is still to do all that i can within my own limits. Strengthening my own circle of influence is better than trying to enlarge it since i do not have the ability for the latter.

But then again, many things are easy to say but hard to execute. Can only hope for the best!

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