{"id":885,"date":"2019-05-27T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T23:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=885"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T03:27:30","slug":"diberi-betis-hendak-peha-similar-proverb-in-english-give-them-an-inch-and-theyll-take-a-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/diberi-betis-hendak-peha-similar-proverb-in-english-give-them-an-inch-and-theyll-take-a-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"Diberi betis hendak peha (similar proverb in English: Give them an inch and they\u2019ll take a mile)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I have taught this course more than one semester.\u00a0 It has been more than 5 years in fact.\u00a0 I am not saying that I am an expert in this subject matter but I know the difficulty of remembering many theories related to personality which belong to different schools of thoughts.\u00a0 It is not easy.\u00a0 So, to help the students in this matter, I allow them to bring few pages (A4 size) of notes that they can bring to the exam hall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">But I never thought that they would exchange their notes among themselves during the exam.\u00a0 I never anticipate this thing could happen.\u00a0 This was the first incident that happened in five years (and I hope this would be the last).\u00a0 This is akin to cheating because you are looking at other people&#8217;s notes, rather than on your own.\u00a0 I was informed by a student who saw this and I double checked it.\u00a0 When I walked around nearby the conspirators, I noticed that there were notes with different hand-writing on both sides of them.\u00a0 I knew instantly that what had been reported is true.\u00a0 Indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I didn&#8217;t want to spoil the &#8220;mood&#8221; so, I just kept it to myself.\u00a0 But I would definitely not let this thing go without any punishment.\u00a0 This is a classic example of &#8220;Give them an inch and they\u2019ll take a mile&#8221; or in Malay &#8220;<em>Diberi betis hendak peha<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have taught this course more than one semester.\u00a0 It has been more than 5 years in fact.\u00a0 I am not saying that I am an expert in this subject matter but I know the difficulty of remembering many theories related to personality which belong to different schools of thoughts.\u00a0 It is not easy.\u00a0 So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/diberi-betis-hendak-peha-similar-proverb-in-english-give-them-an-inch-and-theyll-take-a-mile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diberi betis hendak peha (similar proverb in English: Give them an inch and they\u2019ll take a mile)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}