What it means to Teach
Appledog
reasoning was that their test scores were significantly behind the
scores of the other classes in their year.
The punishment was thusly; Each student was to receive twenty two
canes to the hand; they may switch hands at will. I watched the
punishment. There were 46 students in the class. It took a long time,
but eventually all 1,012 strikes were administered. It actually took
up 15 minutes into my class.
After this, many of the students wept uncontrollably in the class -
especially the girls. It was so heartbreaking that I went to buy
several frozen bottles of water, but even at this some of the students
refused to apply them. Due to the number of other students begging me
for the bottles, which were only about 20 cents each, I only let the
girls who were crying hold the bottles. Later on, when they didn't
want them anymore, I gave the bottles to some of the boys, some of
which had been hit so severely there were bruises on the centers of
their palms which looked quite serious (I have experience with special
muscle and tendon injury and it was not a normal bruise - it was
probably the result of a reversed bloodflow or pulsed blood flow). At
any rate, it was heartbreaking as you may imagine.
Of course, it was their homeroom teacher who administered the
punishment. He was calm and pretty much smiled throughout. The
students lined up and took it. They almost held their hands out
willingly. He hit quite hard. Try hitting your own hand - go ahead. He
was twice as hard as that, occasionally spiking it up to 3 times as
hard. From my knowledge of martial arts I felt he may almost have
broken one student's hand - I even heard a "bone harmonic" on one of
the hits (dont know how else to explain it, but I heard the stick hit
bone through his flesh). Anwyays.
After class, I gave away several of the bottles to the students. They
were only 40 cents each, but I guess most of the students were too
poor to afford their own bottles. This is China, you know. It isn't
like the west.
What does it mean to teach?
Don't miss the point. This is a study of Zen, placed naturally in the
Asian culture it arose from: China and Japan. http://www.101zenstories.com/index.php?story=73
is instructive; Ekido killed one of his students.
Now, if I do not beat these students, they lose all respect for me and
I quickly lose control of the class. I have a great command of body
language and voice and an eagle's focus; I will often be able to
control a student via those methods spectacularly; but in some cases I
am forced to discipline them by hand. Regardless of this, the students
have come to understand several levels of punishment and have so far
learned what I require in order that they not be hit. This is hitting
without hitting, like cutting the cat into one.
Who are you to teach me? Robert is my Master. Then there is Master Lee
who tells me I learned his lesson. Jen with her personal development
lessons. You think you're good, but you're not you know. You missed
the point. What you really need is a slap in the face to keep you
awake. But it is not my place. I am not your teacher.
That is why I don't help you. It is not that I am some enlightened zen
master trying to teach - no, this is you - so wise to tell me, to
request I call you master, to demand I follow your lessons, personal
development or otherwise, unasked for lessons.. but such is life, the
giver should be thankful.
And yet, I don't get any thanks either. Do you really know what it
means to teach? At the very least, did you get permission from your
teacher to instruct others? I'm just curious.
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Sevenhundred Elves
<oliver....@gmail.com> wrote:
>What does it mean to teach?
Sadistic torture of children is not teaching, unless you aim to teach
them to be slaves who do their duty just out of fear of the whip. By
such means you teach them that it's okay to inflict pain on those who
are inferior in power. You teach them to be without pity or mercy.
Your own acts of mercy are noted. Good. But you could be an even
better teacher by publicly opposing corporeal punisment, and try to
influence the lawmakers to put a stop to this barbaric practice.
In many parts of Europe it has been outlawed for decades already.
S.
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"Sevenhundred Elves" <sevenh...@elves.invalid> wrote in message
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we're taking up a collection for assholeduck
so he can go to burma and gun down hundreds
of children so he can purify his already amazing
enlightenment.
herbzet
Sevenhundred Elves wrote:
> Appledog wrote:
>
> >What does it mean to teach?
>
> Sadistic torture of children is not teaching, unless you aim to teach
> them to be slaves who do their duty just out of fear of the whip.
Torture's okay if it's done for the child's own good.
Enjoying it is a bonus.
> By
> such means you teach them that it's okay to inflict pain on those who
> are inferior in power. You teach them to be without pity or mercy.
>
> Your own acts of mercy are noted. Good. But you could be an even
> better teacher by publicly opposing corporeal punisment, and try to
> influence the lawmakers to put a stop to this barbaric practice.
>
> In many parts of Europe it has been outlawed for decades already.
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hz