The Tapping
When in the course of the hectic hours of school, it becomes necessary for students to find creative ways to relieve the stress gathered from the pressures of school. While being calm and controlled is strongly advocated, it is neither useful nor necessary to relieve stress in forms that may disturb other students. The most irksome and malignant of these stress-relieving tactics is the constant tapping of a pencil.
Oh what a terrible deed is this, to take a writing utensil employed mainly for the benefit of mankind and elicit noises from it by banging it against a desk! The simple act of tapping a pencil can add pressure to other poor, overworked students who merely seek reprieve in the sanctity of the classroom; these poor students do not need any added anxiety to their already adverse agenda. As one who is in a learning institute, the author knows of the terrible pressures to perform to the best of one’s ability and nothing is as exasperating as the tapping of a pencil. The sporadic racket can pierce one’s thoughts like the shrill ring of a school bell and disrupt a complicated and significant line of thought. The simple act of tapping a pencil against a solid surface utterly overthrows the entire learning process. The perpetrators of the deed may not be mindful of their actions, but innocence cannot and will not excuse this wrongdoing. If knowledge were brought before their eyes, they would indubitably cease. If they were cognizant that tapping can cause student’s brains to unravel, if they knew that tapping retards education, if they knew these effects, then they would halt immediately. To this cause must every individual who believes in the value of education strive, to promote the end of tapping. |