We have all had at least one teacher who changed our lives, redirected our futures, made a lifelong change in us. The lucky among us have had many.
They have taught us to read, to add and subtract and most importantly, to think. They have taught us self-discipline, made us spit out our gum, and pretended to not see us pass notes while we should have been learning. They chaperoned our proms, sat through endless school plays, and cheered us at graduation. Some brave ones even taught us calculus.
A person who can guide a whole classroom of students, full of diverse personalities, from different backgrounds, with different belief systems, who are all at different levels of learning is nothing less than a magician. We call them teachers.
Take a minute today to thank a teacher.
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” –William Butler Yeats
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ”
Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
So many wonderful books have been written about teachers and teaching. Below are a few favorites of PBS members:
David Shribman’s I Remember My Teacher
Sam Pickering’s Letters to a Teacher
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