If you go to the emergency room at the hospital, you don't get to choose the on-duty doctor. It's whoever is available. If you get admitted, you'll have the doctors who are there, wherever you are, in the dermatology and venereology department.
If you join a club, like Dinamo, for example, for wrestling, judo, shooting, basketball, you'll have the coaches that are there. If you play for the national football team, you have the coach appointed by the federation. If you want, you can have a personal doctor, a personal coach, like Simona, Prince Duda, or Esca.
So, if you come to school, you have the teachers you have, whether they are good, bad, very bad, or others. What can you do? Protest, try to make educators better. Fight, revolutionize, take on the minister to stand with us. Tell them not to start the class without a lesson/project plan, without planning, without a binder full of worksheets, without a cart full of file folders, without dancing in front of the digital board, and a disco ball spinning slowly.
But don't exaggerate! Sometimes you might have too high expectations and not very accurate images of teachers. Impressions. Also, let's not forget, the selection pool is somewhat limited, not infinite, just like the national handball team, looking for a coach but not having hundreds of options.
Let's say there are 5 philosophy teachers in Giurgiu County, those are the ones, where else would they come from? As for whether you like it or not, that's another matter. Let's assume I have Mrs. Florina Rogalski as my Romanian teacher, whom I don't like. That doesn't mean I can't have common sense, can't be civilized, can't read Mircea Cărtărescu because of her.
The dedicated, charismatic, engaging teacher concept doesn't always work either. There have been and still are university professors who are monotonous, sleep-inducing, downright hypnotic. I, for example, prefer this style; I would like to be like that, speak for a quarter of an hour, and everyone falls asleep with their heads on their desks. I'm watching out for you, it doesn't work, because the fact that the teacher is dull doesn't stop you from reading a book. Have common sense, be civilized, be educated.
If you can't think, read, work without significant training and a huge coach, with glitter and music, try the Globus Circus or Țăndărică or look for entertainers. Even I wanted to be something like that, a de-motivator. To demoralize, to discourage. I don't like enthusiasm; it creates discomfort, a blockage. I feel the dust settling where I see enthusiasm; I run away. Don't put me in those: workshops, games, icebreakers, team-building activities. I literally feel sick; I like it in kindergarten, but not that much. In the first second, I want to go straight to the Buzău River and fish for 3 days.
So, get yourself a personal tutor, coach, entertainer, doctor, secretary, driver, chef. Don't be rude and cheeky in the meantime! Don't be stupid!
Be there at your place, be with your coach, your entertainer. Ask your parents to take you to private schools, but I'll still come because they don't have a philosophy teacher. Who the hell needs philosophy and why?
Take matters into your own hands; leave the coach alone, it's not your business. Don't easily replace Magiun, Săpăligă, Flocea. Play something there. So, get to work and read, leave the magic aside!
DO SOMETHING!
Vali Nicolae
