Forgiveness (宽恕) won't change the past, but it can make a difference to the future. In my teaching life I have 1 this and will never forget one thing happened in my class.
As the students were doing the task, I heard her' laughter in my class. Note-taking couldn't be that 2 .
So I walked over to the student and asked for her 3 Unexpectedly, she refused to give it to me. I just 4 .
Finally, the girl handed it over, she 5 her voice, "Hmm. . . okay, but I didn't draw it.
It was a hand-drawn picture of me, 6 blackened and the words"I'm stupid" coming out of my mouth.
I felt really angry and embarrassed, but I tried to keep 7 I wondered who had drawn the picture. I would do something to 8 him a lesson.
9 , I was able to control myself then.
I showed the class the picture. All the students were in silence as I told them 10 this hurt me. I told them there must be a 11 behind, and now I would give them a chance to write down anything they 12 to tell me.
Later, I read all the notes. Many of them said something like"I've got nothing against you. Or "I'm sorry you were hurt. "But only one note said: "We are always 13 because you are so strict, and you get mad too easily... "
I suddenly realized that over the course of this year, I had never 14 my students.
I had some apology to do. But the next day in the classroom, a girl handed me a card. On it, she expressed her regret for the ugly 15 .
I kept the card till now. And this was a lesson for both the kids and me.
