Sunday, November 18, 2007

Bootlicking

I guess it's pretty normal to want to "show your best properties" to your superior, be it your boss, your parents or your lecturers for that matter of fact...

However, it intrigues me the extent people will go to do so. Maybe because people with my background does not engage in this... (I mean... if the answer is 50, bootlicking does not make your 60 answer correct) I get really bothered when some students go all the way out to "impress" the lecturer. "Impress" not in term of doing well in their work, but in terms of quoting how "wonderful and capable" their lecturer is on an academic forum.

Maybe I'm aloof, but if saying your lecturer is "pretty and capable and smart" helps get you good grades, then I lose all the respect I can have on educators. = = Please lar... don't treat your lecturer like a fool, I seriously doubt he/she will be impressed or flattered.

1 comment:

clare said...

hullo dear! i miss you :( i haven't seen all of 4D for so long! :( i hope you're doing alright - i saw the new takuya movie ad in the papers and thought of you instantly! see lah, i can't think of takuya without thinking of you. hugs