Far from being discouraged, these students refused to believe these teachers who lowered them in their professional desires and their learning capacities … and they were right. Their testimonies.
Being fired by a teacher, many students know what it does. A remark pronounced aloud in front of the whole class, a comment which is printed in memory as a label: “But you are not done for that”, “you will never succeed”, “Stop dreaming a little”. For some young people, these words stay in the head and hurt for a long time. They block, make doubt, and growing up, they even prevent moving forward. While for others, it is like a click that occurs. A desire to show that they are worth more than they are told. They then persist, continue their efforts while keeping this idea in mind: proving that we were wrong on them.
These are the stories that several teachers have decided to highlight on Tiktok, such as this economy-management teacher known as @sharingmyway. Last December, he published a video in which he asked his subscribers this question: “What is the teacher’s sentence that marked you the most?“Many Internet users have played the game and have shared, without filter, the most discouraging remarks they heard about them.
“‘It would be better to go to a professional baccalaureate or in CAP, the general is not for her.’ Result: I have a bac +5, I am a teacher … and I became his colleague “, commented a surfer. “One day, a teacher told me that I was good for anything and that I would finish on the street. Today, I have my own business”, shared a man, who proves that one can transform a judgment into a engine to succeed. Another woman wrote: “‘She can make a bac S, but she will go further.’ Ten years later, I have a doctorate in physiotherapy and I started a bridge to become a dentist.
Conversely, some teachers permanently mark their students with a simple sentence, a well -placed word, which pushes to surpass themselves. This is precisely what the professor experienced behind the @Sharingmyway account. Under his video, he shared a personal anecdote: “Why not have made a preparation class? I said my teacher during the first year of higher education, freshly graduated from a general bac. She is also the first to have mentioned the grandes écoles.” Two apparently harmless sentences, but which have opened an unknown world to it and revealed its capacities. A decisive meeting, which partly pushed him to become a professor in turn!
