Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Fall of Single Feather...
Teacher
To quote Haim Ginott,
"I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in my classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized."
This literally translates to the fact that to a child, a teacher is their god.
My goal is to be the Boss of their god.
You can call me Zeus, or Ra, or both from now on.
Later...
Taken by one of the magicians::
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