- Classroom teaching is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species has ever invented. In fact, when I compared the complexity of teaching with that much more highly rewarded profession, ‘doing medicine,’ I concluded that the only time medicine even approaches the complexity of an average day of classroom teaching is in an emergency room during a natural disaster.” said by psychologist Lee Shulman that discussed the challenges of being a classroom teacher.
according to Mindset book there are 5 empowering thoughts on teaching to inspire even more teachers out there:
- A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Every moment is a teaching moment
- Your students will rise and fall to the level of expectations that you set for them.
- By inspiring a child, you make the world a better place forever
- They may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
- “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
- “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
― Mort
- "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”Will Durant
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry B Adams - “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
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