I Harshly Blame My ex-University Teachers
I harshly blame some so-called university teachers for holding the position of university teacher. I am saying so out of my experience with some of them. I am an ex-student of a grammar university teacher who still had difficulty distinguishing between the right preposition and the almost right preposition and who did not fully master the complete uses of modals and tenses. I am an ex-student of a university teacher of spoken English who could not phonetically transcribe some words accurately and who did not know where the primary and secondary stress fall. I am an ex-student of a composition university teacher who still misplaced commas and who could not differentiate among a fragment sentence, a dependent clause, dangling clauses, absolute clauses and phrases, etc. I am an ex-student of a morphosyntax university teacher who once said that 'vigor' has no verb. I am an ex-student of reading comprehension university teacher who did not know the meaning of some words in the text he brought to class. I am an ex-student of a poetry teacher who once read us "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, committing serious pronunciation errors while reading and who made us read it the manner she pleased. I am an ex-student of a translation university teacher who spoke Moroccan Arabic more than English in class. Anyway, some of you may write and say that all these complaints are normal. But the complaints in question have brought about fossilized mistakes on the part of a large number of new teachers. Still worse is the fact that the university teachers in question have been behind the despair of many students about their future.
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