We need teachers who enjoy doing their job.

Hello everyone, the other day I was studying for a Spanish exam and I started thinking about our educational system. Here in Spain, teachers value your memorizing capacity capacity for memorizing facts/data more than your thinking and it really annoys me. Most students study so that they can pass an exam, when the objective of going to school is learning to learn new things.

Also, I feel like my teachers don't enjoy doing their job. They act as if they were forced to teach us. They don't put any effort on into motivating us and don't explain to us why the information they're teaching us is important or useful.

But, what upsets me the most, is that when it comes to correcting exercises, they humiliate us in front of the class. Making mistakes is human and we shouldn't feel bad about making them, because if we don't fail, how are we gonna going to improve? Nobody in class volunteers to correct to avoid being yelled at.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to every teacher out there. I'm sure there are wonderful teachers as well as bad ones. I really hope I can find somebody who can make me feel curious and happy about learning. In the meantime, I'm managing well trying to think that a grade doesn't define me. I love learning and try to take the best out of every class. I also search the for things I don't understand on the Internet (such a useful tool!). If you ever find teachers like mine, you should find new alternatives. And please, don't be afraid of making mistakes! Everyone makes them and there's nothing bad about it [it might be better to say, "nothing to be ashamed of"].

Happy learning!