Educating By Scolding

I stumbled upon rant messages from students who were scolded by their lecturers on a submission day. They're art students, presented their proposals but then were disappointed as their hard work being torn and thrown away. As a young adult, they don't understand such acts by the lecturers so they rant about it on social media and even showing hatred towards them.

Some people might think that these students were so weak and fragile since they couldn't handle their emotion well and couldn't accept criticism for their works. But honestly, it's more than that. As an art student myself, I had experienced the same situation during my study days and yes, it was hard to think positive when it happened. I mean, who can accept it if the lecturer even proudly said, "we were paid to curse your works". The biggest impact was, I started to have low self-confidence as I mentioned in this entry(click). 

I may not am an educator but I was a student myself. I think that this whole 'I scold you to make you better' culture has got to go. We have to realize that the method to teach these students who are young adults isn't the same as to teach the adolescent or youngsters. Instead of educating by scolding, cursing their works and public shaming them, why not properly explain what actually are the things they needed to do, in a professional manner. 

Respect is something earned, not something given

The quote says it all. If we as an educator wants the students to respect us, we need to respect them first and "your works suck, you don't deserve to be in my class" is definitely not a respectful way to educate them. Here is another nonsense - I teach these kids the way my lecturers taught me. I'm sure not all of our lecturers taught us the same way, some were kind enough to not yell and public shaming us and we needed to take those attitude instead to be a better educator than our lecturers. I remembered loving my lecturers who didn't use harsh words and gangster attitude to teach me and hating those who were like that so yea, let's be the kind of a lecturer who is loved by his/her students instead of only full with hatred and fear.

Anyway, a professional kind of attitude towards students also varied by how the students' attitude is. No lecturers could stand it if their students were being rude. But seriously, I don't think there are that many problematic students in universities. Even the brutal ones turned to being good ones once they entered universities.

Writing this post made me remember my study days so here's a picture of my batchmates with one of our beloved lecturers on his birthday;

How do you (especially future educators) think is best to educate young adults?

Till then,

Lya