Kids.

Kids say the darndest things.

If I wrote all the conversations I've had with my students, I am pretty sure the book will be one of the best seller books of all times.

For example, one of the boys in the class that I was relieving asked me:

"Teacher, what did you get for your exams (the one that the people of my country need to take when they are 17)"
"I got all A's"
"Why do you become a teacher?"
"Why not?"
"Why don't you become.. emmm..."
"What, you mean like doctors and engineers and all those people?"
"Yes teacher"
"Tell me, if all the smart people become doctors and engineers, who is left to teach you guys? Do you want someone who scores no A's to teach you?"
"No teacher"

The conversation ended there with a astonished look stuck on his face. Now I am not saying that no A's teacher cannot teach, but what is wrong with having someone who performed academically teaching the next generations? Even in Finland, the teachers there need to have master before they are allowed to teach. Hence, the reputation of being the country with the best education system in the world.

I got students left and right telling me I am pretty, but being me, praises are a means to get something. So I always tell them, "Whatever that you want from me, you are not going to get it". They usually just laugh it off.

Oh my. I got class now. Till then.