A Teacher Who Influenced My Life

There is more than one teacher in everyone’s growth process, including your parents,

your friends, your relatives, absolutely your teachers from your school. Teachers are those

people who teach you how to act, how to think, how to turn yourselves into a better vision.

I consider myself lucky to get several very good teachers throughout my academic years.

But I still remember I have met a “special” teacher in my middle school whom I don’t want

to think of even I have graduated for such a long time. That man not only let me think of

what a teacher should be but also let me want to be a teacher in the future.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as much as parents are responsible for the

upbringing of their own children, the personal development of everyone else's children

comes under the aegis of a teacher's responsibility towards the society. I am going to tell a

story about why I support this idea so indeed. That was a normal lunch break, I was

chatting with my friend. There was a regulation in my middle school that we can’t use the

phone when we were in the classroom, even it was break time. I held my phone in order to

show a picture to my friend while I was taking. All of a sudden, the director of our grade

was appealed. He grabbed my phone through the window of our classroom without any

hesitation or explanation. I ran after him to his office, apologized sincerely, he broke out

into curses, which are something really hurting me. He said I was the worst one in my class,

I was always the dragger of other fantastic students, how can I pay back what my parents

have pay for me? He did all this in front of many other teachers in his office. Despite his
identity, an elder should not act like what he did. Although my chemistry and physics

teachers have said some words to stop him and comfort me, I was bursting into crying at

that time, of course, I didn’t get my phone back.

Since then, I began to suspect myself. Am I stupid? Do teachers all hate me? Is there

any sense that I should stay in this school? I didn’t talk with friends anymore, I can’t

concentrate on anything, and I searched how to suicide on the internet and so on.

Fortunately, when I search some keywords like “suicide”, “overdoes sleeping pills”, the web

page will be like all green or blue colored and tell me to find therapy if I need it, also

including some hotline about psychotherapy. I can’t remember the detail about how I go

through that period of time at present, maybe the reasons accompanied with some close

friends, supporting of my parents, positive evaluation from other teachers and so on. Let’s

suppose that it just because I don’t want to remember it. To me, when I think back about

this experience, all I can see is dark, gloomy and shady.

Before I set my first step onto the college campus, I have decided to be a teacher as

my future career, a teacher isn’t the same as mine at all. I chose to major in The Education

of English teaching, which can provide me with some specific professional knowledge to

support my career. I have learned the history process of the development of education,

some great man who has contributed to educational theories, some practical methods

about education, etc. What’s more, to my surprise, I have learned something like how to

deal with students who are in a romantic relationship at an early age. This also was set to be

a test item when I was taking the National Teacher Certificate Examination. What I want to
express is that becoming a qualified teacher needs to put so many afford nowadays,

especially we can see many child abuse cases in our daily life. It is worth thinking deeply

about the society we are in.

In brief, teachers should be students' friend when they need a shoulder to cry on, a

parent when they need support, and a critic when they are going the wrong way. Teachers

are those who are considerable, soft, and optimistic, almost like an angle in everyone’s life.

A teacher also is a divine job, we, going-to-be teachers, should take it holy, do not do

whatever we want to any of our students.