The Best Actor
Knocking on the board three times, he glanced down at the students. Holding a long stick in his left hand, he pointed to a student and asked a basic question for this course. When the student stood up slowly, boredom fleeted in the teacher’s eyes, but disappeared so quickly. Instead, patience appeared. Although the answer from that student was not correct, he praised the students with several awkward words. The instructor’s sonorous and sluggish voice came out to explain the problem. The explanation was perfect, precise and understandable. His speed was appropriate for students to take the notes. His patience let him explain the answers again and again to the students.
The tinkling voice came from the class bells. Grabbing his books immediately and throwing the chalk on the platform, he used the stick as a crutch and walked slowly across the basketball court. Gray suit, tattered black leather shoes, and an inconspicuous haircut, these made him look so normal, and he didn’t seem to be the best teacher in this high school. Students liked him so much, as he might have the special ability which can explain the hardest theory in the easiest way. Every sentence from his mouth was so clear, and never caused misunderstanding. However, he didn’t have office hours, and never allowed his student to come into his office. Mystery enveloped him.
Closing the door softly, he took off his shoes and walked into his silent office. On his poker-face appeared a ray of laughter. Huge amount of papers were on the desk, and some paper had sketches. He rushed to his seat, opened the computer, and typed. There was a smile on his lips. His eyes brimmed with radiating vigor. His hand quickly moving on the keyboard, line by line words appeared on the screen. He wrote plots for his own comics. He dreamed to be a cartoonist, but it was really hard to live on that. He knew in his mind: the only thing was comics! In the office, he acted, talked, thought just like other cartoonists. This was the same status when he finished his job.
His job was never to be a teacher. Instead, the job for him is actor. Pretending he was the teacher. Doing the teachers’ actions just like teacher characters in the comics. The world for him is a large comic, and he is a character in this world. The only thing he need to do is act well as a teacher.