Mission And Mission: Convince The Teacher

Mission: Convince the Teacher

In the past few years, I have experienced many difficult situations: hardships in family relationship, moving into a new house, the busy life adapting as an international freshman at Miami University, and living as a high school student in Korea. For me, however, the last one was the most challenging. Students woke up around 6 to 6:30 AM or earlier to go to school, because high schools were sometimes extremely far away from their house, and when the official class was finished around 5 PM, most of the schools and teachers forced them to study more in front of a small desk, which was literally a small prison. When I was at my second year in high school, the official tardy time was 7:50AM and classes began at 8:00AM. Students were usually supposed to stay at school until 10PM. To make things worse, many of

He stopped giving out red stickers when students were late and started to accept students’ different opinions in terms of Yes, leading to a more flexible learning environment that enabled students to receive less stress and develop personalized study habits with some relaxation after class. It took considerable amount of time and effort to convince my teacher, but it taught me that sometimes true changes require authenticity and patience to come into fruition. Although I am not a psychologist, now I know that this is the best way to cope with difficulties and to convince others: When I confront a tough situation or an opinion I do not agree, what I try is to knock at the door with more sincerity and generosity in my heart; what I bear is the unfailing hope that one day the door will open wide and lead to better understanding and true accordance. Today, there are new doors waiting for me here in Miami. However, I believe that the experiences I have gone through so far would be the stepping stone and the very key to open the