Celebrated on the 5th of October every year since 1994, the World Teachers Day provides an avenue for many to reminisce his or her growing days, and to celebrate their good teachers.
Teachers are guidians, counsellors, and moulders of a child’s life. More of than not, most of their actions and utterances stays in our memories for long. Long enough to tertiary institutions, long enough to marriages, long enough to graves.
Identified below are 10 things every students in Nigeria usually remember about their teachers:
1. Introductory technology teachers are wicked
Most of us hear this from our friends and it’s not new to us. Either male or female, tutors of Intro Tech, a junior secondary subject are always callous. A friend will say ‘they know how to beat well.’
2. Their dressings
Many Nigerian students grow up dressing like their teachers. Teachers are usually the first role model for many and this explains why students take after them in many ramifications.
3. Nicknames
There will always be A Miss Pepeye, Teacher Bako, Uncle ten lashes…it’s very easy to give teacher names in Nigeria. Students only have to study what they do or say most.
4. Mimic
After every classes, a student will come out and start the lesson all over again, in a hilarious ways which is mostly approved by others. Sometimes there is a mole who informs the teacher and when this happens, we all know what is coming next.
5. Mathematics and their teachers are boring
Yes, they are actually. Many students sleep when it’s time for mathematics. What exactly could be the cause of this?
6. Economics teachers are stingy
That’s the general conception and in some cases, the students are proven right. Sometimes by the teacher's choice of dressing or general lifestyle. Does anyone remember an economics tutor that is not stingy?
7. The wicked ones teach in break periods
A teacher will walk up to class, stay his or her period, then overstay especially during break periods. Almost all would have experienced this. We tag them wicked for not allowing us to use our break period.
8. Mr. Flogger
There is always a teacher, usually males, called upon to beat the students either on the assembly ground, in the staff room or class. Students call them different names, we call them Mr. Flogger in this write up.
9. The Grammarian
He or she speaks the best English in the school and students sometimes mimic them.
10. CRS/IRK teachers are saints
Is this not so?
Teachers are guidians, counsellors, and moulders of a child’s life. More of than not, most of their actions and utterances stays in our memories for long. Long enough to tertiary institutions, long enough to marriages, long enough to graves.
Identified below are 10 things every students in Nigeria usually remember about their teachers:
1. Introductory technology teachers are wicked
Most of us hear this from our friends and it’s not new to us. Either male or female, tutors of Intro Tech, a junior secondary subject are always callous. A friend will say ‘they know how to beat well.’
2. Their dressings
Many Nigerian students grow up dressing like their teachers. Teachers are usually the first role model for many and this explains why students take after them in many ramifications.
3. Nicknames
There will always be A Miss Pepeye, Teacher Bako, Uncle ten lashes…it’s very easy to give teacher names in Nigeria. Students only have to study what they do or say most.
4. Mimic
After every classes, a student will come out and start the lesson all over again, in a hilarious ways which is mostly approved by others. Sometimes there is a mole who informs the teacher and when this happens, we all know what is coming next.
5. Mathematics and their teachers are boring
Yes, they are actually. Many students sleep when it’s time for mathematics. What exactly could be the cause of this?
6. Economics teachers are stingy
That’s the general conception and in some cases, the students are proven right. Sometimes by the teacher's choice of dressing or general lifestyle. Does anyone remember an economics tutor that is not stingy?
7. The wicked ones teach in break periods
A teacher will walk up to class, stay his or her period, then overstay especially during break periods. Almost all would have experienced this. We tag them wicked for not allowing us to use our break period.
8. Mr. Flogger
There is always a teacher, usually males, called upon to beat the students either on the assembly ground, in the staff room or class. Students call them different names, we call them Mr. Flogger in this write up.
9. The Grammarian
He or she speaks the best English in the school and students sometimes mimic them.
10. CRS/IRK teachers are saints
Is this not so?
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