Instructor

ABD KARIM ALIAS

I am a Professor of Food Technology at the School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and have been teaching for 26 years (since 1994).

As an educator, I always aspire to nurture and educate my students to become lifelong learners. I believe our role as educators goes beyond transmitting knowledge—our role is to nurture our students to become lifelong learners—to teach them the skills of 'learn how to learn' and to teach them the appreciation and the love for knowledge. As Socrates said, "I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think". I believe that teaching is an exciting adventure in which both the teacher and the students participate and cooperate to achieve a common goal.