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DISSADVATAGES OF ATTENDING TUITION
CLASSES
Attending tuition has not only become a norm here in Malaysia
but also starting to be seen as a right forstudents. The demand
here is very high that almost every student here in Malaysia
attends tuition classes after theirmorning lessons in school. This
explains why tuition centres can be seen mushrooming all over the
country. The oncenoble profession is now a lucrative bussiness with
many franchises to boast such as the famous andrew choo
tuitioncentre. This tuition centre take advantage of the highly
examination oriented education here. They promise socalled spotted
questions and leaked questions with no truth whatsoever. !tudents
are victims of this highly planadvertisements that are design to
trap them especially at the eleventh hour when they are stressed
about theirexams and will take any short cut available.
"n tuition classes students are bombarded with a myriad of
information continuausly that it makes it hard forthem not to
memorise the information. This students spoon fed in such a way
that no extra effort nor initiative isneeded from the student. The
sylubus is same both in school and the tuition classes but this
spoon feeding methodis what differentiates them. The student does
not even need to open a book before examination. This method
mayproove successful in short term examinations but in long term
such as tertiary education where no tuition classes ortutors are
available to continue spoon feeding them they will inevetably fail
in almost every class they pursue. Theywill no longer have the
competitive edge that enable them to be successfull in the past. #n
the other hand the otherstudents will end up doing better as in the
past when they studied on their own they have discovered which
studyingtechniques best suit themselves $ be it mind%mapping or
group studying it will help them in studying smart instead
ofstudying hard. The students that had attend tuition classes did
not have the opportunity to discover which studyingtechnique best
suits them as most of their time were spend attending tuition
classes.
Moreover tuition classes creates a generation of dependant
leaders. This future leaders are dependant onothers and are
incapable of making their own decisions as from young they have
relied and depend on others toassist them. Tuition teachers are
paid to nature this dependant charisteristics to ensure the
students remained loyalto their spoon%feeding notes and teaching
method. This desgracefull act will eventually tarnish the ime&
of this oncenoble profesion. This teachers need to realise the main
reason they choose a carrier in this field. At that time it wasnot
about how much many one cauld make nor how much students one cauld
attract it was about the selfless act ofimparting knowledge and
knowing you made a difference in someones life knowing you natured
a person into amatured individual and knowing you made a
contribution to your community. Teachers need to stop and reflect
at
their actions and ponder about whether is this the path they
vision theirselves to be on '( years ago$ if so kudos toyou.
A malay proverb hyperbolically describes a teacher as a candle
which burns herself in order to brightenedher students mind with
knowledge. This shows the extend of how the teaching profession is
respected here inMalaysia. Tuition centres takes advantage of this
well known fact and monetise it into a lucrative franchise. This
onceselfless profession has transformed into a profitable industry.
These visionaries one might say have degraded theteaching
profession putting them in the same categoty with medicine which
monetises on the pain and suffering ofother people. )ith their
endless bogus advertising students are pressured to attend. !ome
teachers do not onlypromote this tuition centres during school
hours but also force and pressure their students into attending.
This is thesad case in most urban schools. Apart from that school
teachers that work part time at tuition centres puts
morepreparation on teaching at the tuition centres than at the
school. This is a severe problem and need to be adressedas soon as
possible to avoid our childrens future to bare the price for our
ignorence.
!ome student think tuition make them feel better more confident
or else. *ut i say it is &ustpsycology. !tudents that find
tuition classes more effective are actually kidding themselves. +et
me give u a personalexample my mom teaches tuition and he is a
teacher too. The funny thing is the people who pay my mom
fortuition say my mom is brilliant very good. *ut my mom,s students
in school say her teaching way is not good theydon,t understand and
so on so forth. My mom teaches the same thing in tuition and
school. -ow come there aredifferent responds )ell its an easy
answer when the students pay they will listen to the class because
they arepaying for it. "f not they won,t bother listening or paying
attention. And then they complain the teacher is notgoodthe
teaching way is wrong and all kind of excuses will follow to
&ustify their actions.
