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UNPOPULAR OPINION: Students should not always blame teachers for the things they weren't taught and the things they're supposed to know but were never talked about in school.

One common issue in class that we'll probably never tire of hearing is how that one teacher failed to teach that one item in the midterms exams. "Hindi naman 'to naturo," or so they say. But, if you think about it, we learned adding numbers up without studying every single combination of numbers possible: it's pointless. What we were taught are methods and shortcuts to arrive to a correct sum.

There are understandable cases. There are neglectful teachers—we all had them. And sometimes, they have the nerves to give us grades lower than their teaching performance. Truth be told, school budget go to waste for these people, exactly like how we spend our parents' hardly earned money on a tube of lip tint.

The system is not perfect, teaching is not absolute. We have teachers who try to do well in explaining an equation, but fail in making half of the class understand. There are teachers who don't really exert much effort but yield good post test results. And they are not bad teachers at all.

Learning is not one-size-fits-all. There are students who will understand, there are students who will not. There are multiple approach to explain a lecture to forty different students at a time, but don't demand a teacher to print a hand out for you, specifically, just because you're a visual learner. Not all circumstances can let your tactile habits work on computer class. Sometimes, reading class cannot give way to your aural needs.

As much as teachers have the job to cultivate, you have a work to do as well. Your LEARNING is your business above all. It is your responsibility to help yourself more than others are helping you. If we blame everything on the inadequacies of our surroundings, we won't see the loopholes in ourselves that we should be most concerned with.

Not everything is taught in school because not everything has to be. And admit it: you sometimes let things pass without understanding them well. You missed a whole algebra lesson one time and you don't excel in physics the next year because your teacher is lacking? Once you started missing out on certain topics in class, you'll find it twice harder to work on the succeeding activities. If you let ninth grade pass without even knowing the quadratic formula by heart, don't expect to ace the following years.

There are incompetent educators and sometimes you love jumping in the bandwagon with them. There is a concept of putting that big F in your reports cards because you did not meet the school's expectations of you. Teachers can put a failed mark on your exams and it's because you failed. As painful as it sounds, if you keep on garnering these Fs, you should look at what's wrong already. Is it still their incompetency? Should you stop looking at them and start looking at yourself? Aren't you supposed to be reading your notes and not complain to your best friend about the pile of essays on your desk? Is it always their fault that you learn slower or that you don't learn at all?

Can you even hear yourself?