Thursday, July 14, 2011

Driving Instructors : Why can’t they be patient and informative?

Why can’t the driving instructors be patient enough and be informative also? Until now I have taken 13 classes on driving and still a long way to go. Off all the instructors I had, every one of them falls in to one of these two categories: either they are impatient but informative or they are patient but not informative.

Yesterday I was doing right turn class. My previous class was also on right turn. My previous instructor was patient enough that I wished him to be my instructor for ever. (It is possible to choose our preferred instructor but to choose your instructor you will have to shell out another 5$ or something which I didn’t want to. Already I am spending hell a lot of money on this driving). But my instructor for yesterday’s class was so informative that he really scared me by giving so much information like “if you ever touch the white cross lines in your filter lane while you right turn then I guarantee an immediate failure during test”. Huh!

I was not able to catch up with him. When I asked him to repeat (of course, after asking a pardon!) he said “so fast also cannota!” That means “The class is only for 1 hour (last session) I wanted to give out information as fast as I can. I am doing you a favor by being fast but still are you not able to catch up with me?” He missed the whole point. It is not his quick way of talking that concerns me but it is his English. It is broken and highly localized. How am I supposed to follow him while I drive? And why does he show his angry face when I am not able to follow him? After all he is a teacher! He gives me more information but he is totally impatient. An impatient teacher never really teaches.

In the middle of right turn he talks with me. In fact he questioned me. He wants an answer immediately. When I didn’t answer he is very upset and he reminds me that he is talking with me. What am I supposed to do? Stop doing a right turn and chat with him in the middle of the road?
When I go for the next class there is a high probability that I will again get him as the instructor. Allocation system tries to help me!

But I understand that a patient instructor is highly useless when he didn’t really educate. I wish the teachers to be patient and informative.

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