Unforgettable memory in Vancouver

My industry is education, so I think about kinds of teachers these days I saw. In Vancouver, I have seen many kinds of teachers, who sometimes are totally different from Korea’s and sometimes are similar to Korea’s. Among these various kinds of teachers, there is one special teacher I’d like to talk to you guys. I met a one Canadian teacher who has long time teaching experiences in both Asia and North America. Since he has been teaching in Japan and Korea for many years, he is well knowing about Asian culture also. For example, Asian students expressed respect to teachers more than North American students such as by giving something to their teachers in two hands, bowing to the teachers like that. Also we, students who are from Korea, know about that Western people are more punctually than Asian even in class time. However, one day, in lunch time, some students didn’t be in a class, they were late just one minutes, and even in their own watches the time is still on time. The teacher locked the door and said that clock which was in class showed that one minute already passed and only that clock was the right one for time. Not only students who didn’t come in class on time also students who were in class got embarrassed, because we all knew that the teacher also was late on first class about 30 minutes without any excuse and the day before that lunch time he wasn’t on time after lunch break. It doesn’t make sense at all. Some students got angry to him and protested about his behavior, but suddenly the teacher talked about Asian culture and forced us to be a polite to him. Oh My God…! What a strange situation! As you know, we are just students and have no power at all, there is just one way we can do that just keep silent to pass by that time. This happening makes me think a lot of thing. In the future, if I be a teacher, I should keep my behavior just one way and always do in right away like I am in front of lots of people who are more upper than me.