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On the other end

During form four and form five, I had teachers that seemed to me incapable of teaching us. They do not know how to answer questions that we pose to them. This frustrated me greatly and I used to be biased against these teachers. I sort of disliked them and would find every mistake that they make, to complain about. They were teachers for goodness sake, they should know the answers! Same thing happened in form six with our chemistry teacher, who had stopped teaching the subject 16 years ago and needed to refresh her mind. Her teaching was hesitant and whenever we asked questions her answer was always go and read up from your text books or copy from your friends. I was really flustered at that time. Now, in my job as a homework guidance teacher, I find it hard to answer every question that a student doesn't know. I have to hesitate, think for awhile and check up the dictionary before I can give them a clear and correct answer. I can see the students being flustered themselves and eve...