Fulfilling Volunteer Teaching

I had a wonderful weekend this week as it was Mee Toh School Dharma Class Year End Ceremony. It was my 2nd year volunteer teaching at Mee Toh school. Had ups and downs but overall it was a wonderful journey to impart dharma to the children in a simplified way.

I had a few realisations, in the eyes of parents, their children is perfect. They can overlook their children flaws and give them unconditional love to their children. For example, one student forgot to wear PE Tshirt for the ceremony and her father brings her clothings to the school.

The focus of teaching is to understand the needs of the students and provide the dharma accordingly so that the children will benefit in a long run.

The bonding of the main teacher and assistant teacher needs to be there to experience the utmost learning for the students.

As I was worried that the playful children will screw up the performance. However, they are well behaved during the performance surprisingly. In fact, I am touched by their behaviour. There's no bad children, only teachers who didn't have the skills to guide the children yet.

The essence of gardener of life《生命园丁》is to plant good seeds into the children mind so that they will have positive outlook of life.