PERSON WHO HAS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ME

One of the persons who has inspired me most is Mrs Dau Nguyen, a teacher at secondary school in the northern region of Vietnam. I first met her when I moved to grade 8 at Thuyson Secondary School. She was our homeroom teacher.

When I was at secondary school, Vietnam educations especially in the North were so different than what you see today. Teachers were the only ones with privileges to talk and give conclusions in class. Students were educated to strictly follow orders and do exactly what they were told to do. No questions or comments were welcomed.

My class was very lucky to see Mrs Dau and to have her as our homeroom teacher. She was so different from others in this era of principle and punishment schools. By giving students chances to prove themselves and encouraging them to speak out and to ask questions, my classmates and I made amazing advancement in just a couple terms.

Despite the negative comments and conclusions of previous teachers, she was the one recognised the potential capabilities of pupils and always believed her pupils could made progress under her instruction.

Not only doing an awesome work in class, she spent time seeing every single student’s home in order to better understand as well as raised fund to help poverty family. As a result, one of my neighbourhood friends could continue studying and complete high school.

I was considered a naughty boy with a pre-intermediate level of study when I first met my teacher. Thanks to her guidance in the last 2 years at secondary school, I made progress not only in studying which I jumped to top 3 of class but also in behaviour and responsibility. My life would have been going in another direction if I had not met her.