___4e1. Devils in disguise__

Monday, August 14, 2006

3e1 women and 3e1 men! I have written many blog entries, and have taken many positions on many issues. But today is something very special for me: it is special because today I fight for classmates who work hard every day and who have therefore learned from their own experiences what education is, and what its accomplishment means for productive students.

Verily, Cheng Hwee’s three misconceptions are aptly stated! Being in 3e1 simply means we study triple science. That is all a layman can tell when one claims “I am from 3e1”. We were not sent to this class because we need no guidance! We were not sent to this class because we know everything! We were not sent to this class because we were the best of the level!

However, after coming to this class, we have proved to be generally better than the other class in terms of discipline and results, and perhaps generally more willing to learn. My request is that we be given more attention, more guidance, more criticism, more feedback, more work, and taught more knowledge. Surely it is not too much to ask for these?

When feedback is given to us, we must evaluate it carefully, and decide whether it is true or false, and to what extent. We can not blindly except or reject feedback. We must learn whatever truth is present in the feedback, and improve ourselves. We must also ascertain when the feedback has gone wrong, so that we may identify how teachers’ thinking may go wrong, and hence we can clarify misconceptions without unnecessary delay.

I wish to ask you five questions that you, 3e1, will answer for our opponents and teachers to hear, who read our blog or receive word about it. Are you willing?

It is maintained that the 3e1 people have lost faith in doing home work.

I ask you: Are you resolved to do the home work given, through thick and thin to victory, and are you willing to accept the heaviest studying burdens?

Second, it is said that the 3e1 is tired of studying.

I ask you: Are you ready to follow the teachers as the phalanx of our class, to study with wild determination through all the turns of fate until victory is ours?

Third, it is said that we are not willing to work hard.

I ask you: Do you want to take an unbreakable oath that you will study firmly and unshakably and that you will give everything which is needed to achieve victory?

Fourth, outsiders disrupt our class.

I ask you: Do you approve, if necessary, the most radical measures against a small group of troublemakers who enter our class and riot in the corridors, hindering the learning/teaching effort?

Fifth and lastly, I ask you: Do you agree that above all in this learning process, the same rights and duties should apply to all, that the class should bear the heavy burdens of the studying together, and that the burdens should be shared equally between high and low and weak and strong?

We will fill our hearts with passion for knowledge, with the ever-burning fire, that blazes during the great struggles of the class and the school. Never during this struggle will we fall prey to the false and hypocritical notions that have brought the class so much misfortune over its history.

Hongjie Declares
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haha. CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION O6! we were so busy then.

notice huifang? she's been so busy ever since the morning starts. and look at clarence with his phone. CATCH HIM! haha.

lol. look at how stressed the people were. saw adeline? stressed herself too much =X
look at huifang. she's selling her kachang puteh! lol [kidding] xD