I do like most of my teachers.
Sometimes, I may not agree with their way of teaching, but it doesn't really matter.
And then, there's this one teacher.
He teaches me the Czech language. That I never did like very much anyway - even my personal blog is in English, though it's not my mother's tongue, you see?
Today, he gave out our lyrical short essays on "Autumn morning".
He pointed out few good sentences and few bad to whole class.
One of mine was a sentence he found good. Interesting, because he hates me as well. But I don't really care, he's quite a xenophobe.
The sentence was (translated to English):
"I never knew, what should I think about the melancholy of Autumn morning."
He said: First, I thought this was a bad sentence. Why would anyone think about Autumn morning? You just DON'T think about it when you wake up and your eyes are all blurry and stuff. But when I read it several times, I thought it's actually quite good, in the end. A little mysterious, anxious. Sometimes even people who usually express themselves very clumsily can unawarely make a good sentence."
He always was very emotion-less and quite treacherous. Never expected him to be fair. He cannot be fair actually - sometimes it would just mean he has to accept that he's wrong, which is absolutely impossible for him.
Anyway, what he said about my sentence - though it's very trivial quite made an impression on me.
First off, it shut off my self-consciousness about my style of writing. Most of the people I've shown my work to was very enthusiastic about it, yet he - probably the only professional who saw my texts - says that I express myself very clumsily. Also, it made me raging angry. Because he just thinks that things are exactly how he sees them. No other way. Giving no room for any originality whatsoever. And that proves to be very limiting.
Also, which is another indicator of how heartless he is, absolutely denied the "deppresive atmosphere" of fall, stating that it is only "teenagers' thing". He may be partially right, but c'mon- he just doesn't get to say anything like this. He just reads and make an opinion. And this opinion is not valid at all. That of course doesn't prohibit him from thinking so, but it should prohibit him from saying so out loud.
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