Personal Growth
About 40 years ago in Japan, School teachers were considered as highly respectable people, with high moral, someone to be admired. Children were expected to comply to teacher’s instruction, and had almost no doubt that they will not be misled by teachers. Probably clever children might have come up with a different opinion, that teachers are human being after all, and they do make mistake and they do have moral problem. As an average Japanese child grew up in 70’s and 80’s, I vaguely thought that school teachers are trustworthy. Then came an encounter with an American teacher, who has changed my point of view. I was at an international school in London, and on a first day of English literature class for EFL students, I was harassed by the American teacher and thrown out of the class room because my handwriting in English was not satisfactory. The teacher also threw out another Japanese student, who previously attended the EFL literature class a year befo