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Many years ago, at one particular school, I was assigned to a cluster sub teacher program for the day. In my opinion the best assignment for sub teachers. Anyway, I walked into a 5th grade class. The teacher requested for me to continue her lesson on addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators. I said no problem.
Anyway, I proceeded to teach the class how to add and subtract fractions with like denominators. Forty minutes later, the regular teacher walked into the classroom. I was happy to teach math for a few minutes.
The kids praised my work with them. What on Earth was that for? I was never assigned to that classroom again but I didn't know why. About a month later, I found out from a paraprofessional that the 5th grade teacher whose class I covered as a cluster sub told the main office that she didn't want me in her class again.
I asked the paraprofessional for a reason. I wanted to know what occurred. According to the paraprofessional, it was just simple a case of envy and jealousy on the part of the 5th grade teacher. I also found out that the students told the teacher that they actually learned more about fractions with me in 40 minutes than they had for several weeks.
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I say... this may happen to anyone working under a direction. I learned it in the hard way.
I mean, my father died (when I was 9) also because of jealousy.
He was working in a French bank (a branch in Middle East). Being very good in math and French, he became, at age 37, the general manager of the other branches in Middle East too. Two years later, the oldest one among his personnel ended up, on one day (in 1958), to present false evidence (sent to France via telex) that my father is a gambler. The next morning, his bank received a telex from France that he was fired (this was very fast, everything was prepared in advance). My Father survived a few months later before his two kidneys stopped working for good.
This is why it became out of question for me to serve any rich families even for all treasures and pleasures of the world. Therefore, at school, then at the universities, I was looking always for good knowledge only, nothing but knowledge (yes, I was never interested in degrees), so that I can gain my daily bread (and of my assistants) while I am really free and independent (running my small private business related to electronics, since 1975 till now).
Every living thing has no choice but to execute its pre-programmed instructions embedded in it (known as instincts).
But only a human may have the freedom and ability to oppose his natural robotic nature.
But, by opposing it, such a human becomes no more of this world.
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I say... this may happen to anyone working under a direction. I learned it in the hard way.
I mean, my father died (when I was 9) also because of jealousy.
He was working in a French bank (a branch in Middle East). Being very good in math and French, he became, at age 37, the general manager of the other branches in Middle East too. Two years later, the oldest one among his personnel ended up, on one day (in 1958), to present false evidence (sent to France via telex) that my father is a gambler. The next morning, his bank received a telex from France that he was fired (this was very fast, everything was prepared in advance). My Father survived a few months later before his two kidneys stopped working for good.
This is why it became out of question for me to serve any rich families even for all treasures and pleasures of the world. Therefore, at school, then at the universities, I was looking always for good knowledge only, nothing but knowledge (yes, I was never interested in degrees), so that I can gain my daily bread (and of my assistants) while I am really free and independent (running my small private business related to electronics, since 1975 till now).
Thank you for sharing your story.
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