Tuition seems to be a norm in singapore context and leaves quite an impression on most people. therefore, i would think that it would be appropriate to start on this topic today.

i've went through tuition classes before in my secondary school days and my teacher sucks. well, he was from srjc. the news naturally makes me have lower expectations of the tutor. say i am biased, but the truth remains, he is a srjcian and srjc is among the last of the junior colleges when ranked in singapore (even until now....)[SRJC is a good school, it's just the student that makes reputation so bad. trust me alright? i know it)

thus, we had physics tuition over at my friend's house and guess what? he just reads from the book. i was like WTH... (trying to be civilised) i could do that myself and don't need him to just read from the book. he thinks i pay him just to make him read from that textbook. DISAPPOINTMENT was the only word i could describe for that one-month long tuition (if i could make it one lesson, i will be off in a wHoosh)

i did some maths tuition some time back and i feel that tuition is useless... i can just teach the girl without any money. she knows her stuffs. the mere thing of what she lack is practice and i feel that this applies to many that are having tution now. i know of a friend who practically just slept through her tuition and the tutor didn't care. i would say that laziness is just a natural part of human but sometimes, fear of the future just makes people study. (the reason why i am still in uni is merely this)

my official code of what a tutor is for:

TUTOR is just a person who sees that you finish your assessment book. NOTHING ELSE.
actually, most tutors just sit down and read comic and mark what you have done. that's all they do.

of course, i wouldn't just forget those who are really good at teaching but normally, these people are teachers/ex-teachers. how much can you expect from a jc student to teach you when he/she has't even finish his/her study??

so much for today... i am pretty lazy today...