When told to write a composition, they would only write the minimum number of pages (that's how they count it in the tuition) required. To meet the requirement, they would have a lot of paragraphs and leave a few lines after each paragraphs. It was then I realised that they only attend tuition classes to meet parents' expectations.
Is tuition really helpful? By attending more tuition classes, can a student excel in his/her studies automatically? There is a Chinese saying “耳到，眼到，心不到”, which roughly means that despite having your physical body here, you are actually not paying attention (your mind is elsewhere). This behaviour can be found in many students who are forced by their parents to attend tuition classes.
In my opinion, this does not apply to tuition only. If forced to do assessment books/exercises by their parents, children will not improve because they are not putting it the effort (due to their reluctance). The child himself must have a desire to learn and to improve for him to excel.
Here's where the problem comes in. What if the child is unable to focus and give priority to his studies? Even with failing grades, he or she still has no desire to learn. What can he/she do? This is a question that I am still unable to answer for myself. Comment please!
The usefulness of tuition varies from person to person.
ReplyDeleteAdmit it. If you could, you would not want to study. It is the natural instinct of man not to study. Sadly (note the word usage >D), we are required to study.
For those who are willing to study (afraid of losing), tuition is not needed because they can drive themselves to solve their own problems.
For those willing to study but have problems (like me), then I advise methodological tuition, where the teacher only teaches the method. Thus, the teacher can spend merely 1 hour and leave the student to do the groundwork, like memorizing and practice, in his own free time.
For those not willing to study but do not have problems with their studies (the rare breed), parents who are worried about their child missing out on topics, they can opt for basic practice based tuition, where most of the time during the session is spent doing practice.
For those not willing to study and failing miserably in their studies, intensive drilling tuition will be needed whether he likes it or not. Doing this session, the student will be drilled and bombarded with practices. If he fails the practices an explanation will be given again, and the process repeats until the teacher is confident that he can answer such questions in the future.
Honestly, I feel that different people benefit differently from tuition. I know some people who go for plenty of tuition, they have at least 5-6 a week. However, they still do not do as well as some who do not go for any tuition at all. I also know some people who need tuition but do not go, their grades suffering as such. I feel that tuition should not be used as a crutch to help one stand. We should not rely on tuition to pull up our grades, we also need to work hard on our own. If we do go for tuition, instead of doing the work they assign you, one should bring questions they are unsure of to the tuition and ask the teacher there to help you understand it. This way you fully get the benefits from tuition and you are much likelier to do better than those who just go there mindlessly.
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