The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.