Higher Obedience

I was at university tonight, sitting in a narrow and long classroom and it was getting a little cool so I put my grey jacket on, a little sad to hide the red letters on my tshirt that said, “Meat is Murder, Tasty, Tasty Murder”. But eh, I was getting cold.

The teacher was talking about socio-constructivism and how it works in an ESL classroom today. He talked about how it worked before, without the socio-constructivism philosophy. And this is sort of how he expained it; “Teachers used to be God, giving knowledge to the students. There was no interaction between the students, only the teachers gave knowledge, they were above the students.” (my words, not real quote). And the idea of teachers being “God” really stuck with the people in my classroom. They thought it was funny.

A little later on, a student asked the teacher if God (the teachers) could exist in the socio-constructivism philosophy in the ESL classroom. The teacher said that now teachers were no longer “God”, but rather, omnipresent, everywhere in the classroom, not above the students anymore, but helping students learn together and from one another. The girl then said something like, “Ah, it’s like, teachers are not God anymore, they’re Jesus!”

I thought this whole thing quite interesting. Just to see that the girl understood, at least to a certain extent, that Jesus was God who came among us.