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Being a Character Formation Lecturer (Insights after 3 years)

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Before anything, do follow  @malaysianchristianmemes  on  insta . I am in my fourth year teaching what some may call a niche subject, a useless subject, waste of time, least important subject. But... I have been teaching it for three years and I am still here. What retains me? And what have I learnt from all of this? Before you continue reading, please do not take anything to heart, I am laying these insights as it is and of course it is a learning process. But all would make sense if you wait to the end or else just  skip to the end. 13  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do:  forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,   14  I press on toward the goal for  the prize of the upward  call of God in Christ Jesus.   15  Let those of us who are  mature think this way, and if in anything  you think otherwise,  God will reveal that also to you. 16...

5 months as a lecturer

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My last post on me as a lecturer was on my 3 week lecture post . I had come to learn so much in just a matter of 3 weeks. Now I am in my fifth month and it is a whole new ball game. Imagine my next one after a year. Then after 3 years. Then 5 years. Well god willing if I am still in MCKL. What has 5 months taught me? In 3 weeks it was all about relying on God. How as a young and fresh lecturer who had no initial desire to become one came to love the one job he never thought he would be in. I hear a lot about education and understand the weight it brings to society. Just never thought that God would call me into it. That is how I know it is from God in my personal sense. After 5 months . There are two things that I learnt.Let me begin with the first. The first thing is nothing short of constantly being humbled again and again. It was the realization of how little I knew . On every single aspect. How much I needed to learn and I was learning them through my mistakes. Oh I do crin...