Thursday, February 28, 2008

Complaining

You may already know that the teacher program is of superb quality and you very seldom find anything to complain about... This is important since it by far is the most important educational program in our country, the future of our civilization depends on how well we, as teachers, succeed in our mission to educate our pupils. This requires that the teaching program is one of a kind and that improvement is the obvious goal. I, as a hard working student, will not tolerate any miss conditions and I was therefore sort of forced to go to go to the social science institution and complain about a course we had last semester.

I was rather worked up (and nervous, lets say over 100 in pulse) before the meeting with the teacher. Anyhow I had, for the sake of a giving discussion, left the hammer at home…well it is also fair to point out that I’m not a conflict person and the conversation that took place was calm and accepting. It is always important to listen to what other people has to say but I kind of missed the ability to extort a pure apology from her (in other word I was lacking the hammer…). Instead I got some lame “don’t blame me” excuse and I did what the instructions said and it was my first time I had your program and I won’t have it again. Bah, how hard can it be to say “hey I’m sorry, it was my mistake and I understand that you are unhappy with the course I was responsible for?

I’m not sure if my complaint made any difference but the goal is clear, to improve the most important university program in Sweden.