In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.