Be Yourself

We always heard ppl telling us to be ourself. But sometimes we will also heard ppl telling us to adapt the environment. Does both of this contradict? I'm not sure also.

For me, I think that to be myself is very important. Sure we need to adapt environment. But what do environment means? The surrounding? So to adapt the surrounding do we need to change? Ya, certain behavior maybe need to be changed. For example if you working under a very efficiency environment, you need to do things accordingly and punctually. 

Then does adapt to environment need to change our personality? If you are a person who very stingy, but working with ppl who very generous on money, do you need to change and become generous also? Will you be happy to do so?

Everyone is unique. Everyone has his own identity, own believes, own style. But sometimes without realize we change our style to follow others. If things go well, maybe you will come out to be another person with styles and believes that you tend to follow others. If it doesn't goes well, you will lost your identity, 

Maybe I'm very stubborn or I just want to be unique badly. I tend to not follow others, even sometimes i think the others are good. I know that's not a smart way. For example, i always stick to my own way to say hi by typing 'harlo' no matter there are so many various ways nowadays, which maybe a more in trends way. Some ppl will 'adapt' to the way of 'talking' of his best friend or boss. For instance, when text messaging normally he uses 'thx', but maybe the one who text him more often was using 'tq', then he will 'adapt' to that way. For me, i think that's the lost of uniqueness. 

Well, you can say I'm too egoistic, but I just like to be myself. The unique me!

Education

Although I like my job lots, but sometimes it still made me pissed off. In Malaysia, the people is still dunno what's education about. The quality of education in our country is so much behind of others developing countries.

I'm not going to blame our government, cause I believe that demands made quality. If we people have demands of the quality, I dun think that government will not take any actions. Our school syllabus is keep on changing. But no matter how the syllabus change, the way of teaching still the same. Now is 2010, the parents and educators still arguing whether to canned or not to canned the pupils. It's canning issue that important?

Due to lack of education, parents nowadays dun actually clear of what they want for their child. Some parents emphasis on freedom. Freedom in the sense of? You want to learn then learn, if you dun want just let go? Some parents emphasis on enjoyment. But when they found their child playful during lesson, they will start complaining and ask the teacher to be straight. Ain't it contradict? Some parents want result. But when the child complaint that teacher giving so much homework and etc., parents start telling the teacher to go slow.

When consumers are not appreciate the work, what will happen to the educator's attitude? Some private education line, the educator emphasis on the money ONLY but without bothering the quality (especially tuition center). No doubt that money is the main issue when it comes to private teaching. But they just look at the money and neglect the results. Not matured thinking I will say. If your teaching got no result, soon your students will leave and your income gone at the same time.

It's all goes hand in hand, I believe. Both the consumers and producers have the responsible to make out the best market. We, who doing education must always remember to keep the quality rather than just making money. The market will go worse if everyone just try to make money, and our children will never get a good education.