I could still remember my English professor in college.He was quite strict which made most of us hated him to the highest level. I hated him as much as I hated pimples. Why? Nothing! Maybe he’s too confident he’s too good in English. He’s damn very good. No question about that!
But he used to in INSULTING ONE IN FRONT OF MANY. Maybe he wasn’t aware of that.He used to be my instructor in Philippine Literature in English and Speech Communication. Our assignment was…..to read in advance a certain story…I forgot what’s the title of the story. It was a long story…not an interesting one.
I was grade concious then hoping to be on the top of the mountain,so I read the story trying to understand every happenings.The moment came when our professor asked queries regarding the story.I was praying that he wouldn’t ask me. But he did. I answered his question only to get hurt with his reply.I n verbatim,he said “You probably did not read the story.” Ouch!
I could still remember another instance where I wasn’t able to utter even a single word to answer his question, so what I did was to smile. “Don’t just smile, infer!”,he said in front of many.
I didn’t even know then what’s the meaning of infer. Dull boy. Since then,I studied hard in his subject!!!
