Optimism over fear: Encourage potential teachers

Optimism over fear: Encourage potential teachers

Nearly everyone remembers that one grumpy teacher they had growing up who embodied the classic cynic. We would usually give these teachers terrible nicknames that astutely represented their “authoritarian” wrath. They openly hated their jobs, sometimes ruined class subjects for good and made us dread school. I personally have had two teachers tell me not to become a teacher/one. Both times it felt like a swift punch to the gut. Teaching is hard,…

Bob Dylan said it singing more than sixty years ago. Times are a-changing; and although they are not doing so in the direction that the naive hippies who back then dreamed of everyone hugging each other with flowers in their hair to watch the sun set over the horizon, in peace and harmony with the beach songs of the Beach Boys playing in the background; it is evident that due to technological changes, the evolution of social dynamics, the transf…