Angry adults must learn to be "mature"

"...... I think I am taking a different approach to deal with a similar problem, in the end, I believe we will all get there, :D"

MT saw me today and it looked like words that i was "badly" affected by students' noise passed on to him. He immediately told me what I should do to stop them from making too much noise. I can tell from his tones there were angers and unhappy memories that float onto him regarding those noisy students. MT used to teach the course I am teaching now. MT was retired when I joined the Business School and it becomes natural I came in to fill in the gap.

I appreciate some colleagues in the Business School being supportive on how to deal with noise in the lecture. We do have guideline on how to deal with them, but they are just static guideline. One colleague claimed dealing with students and "keeping them quiet" is a bit of a game, and that colleague appeared more "empathetic" on matters like this and I suspect some colleagues are still having problem despite their years of experience dealing with noisy students. I mean, we are being employed to teach, to impart knowledge, and to do good research over here. Many a time, we have to remind ourselves to deal with noisy students "maturely".

I "recovered" myself from the incident regarding the students' noise and was spending time today preparing the slides of my final week 10 lecture. Thinking about the "outcome" (by looking at how retired colleagues "feel" about the students after so many years of teaching) it is really sad to see that there were angers, though I appreciate MT for standing by me, but I think I am taking a different approach to deal with the similar problem, in the end, I believe we will all get there, :D