[Rhodes22-list] Teachers

[Steve Alm]

Thank you, Robert.
Steve Alm

On 10/30/02 7:41 PM, "Robert Quinn" <rjquinn@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Someone mentioned teachers and I thought that all of us would appreciate the
> words below as we get ready to cast off our lines and sail.
>> 
>>> The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
>>> One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He
> argued:
>>> "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in
>> life was to become a teacher?" He reminded the other dinner guests that
>> it's
>>> true what they say about teachers: "Those who can do. Those who can't,
>> teach."
>>> To corroborate, he said to another guest: "You're a teacher, Susan," he
>> said.
>>> "Be honest. What do you make?"
>>> Susan, who had a reputation of honesty and frankness, replied, "You want
>> to know what I make?"
>>> "I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a
>> C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an A- feel like a slap in
>> the face if the student did not do his or her very best."
>>> "I can make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall in absolute
>> silence."
>>> "I can make parents tremble in fear when I call home"
>>> "You want to know what I make?"
>>> "I make kids wonder."
>>> "I make them question."
>>> "I make them criticize."
>>> "I make them apologize and mean it."
>>> "I make them write."
>>> "I make them read, read, read."
>>> "I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, and
>> definitely beautiful over and over and over again, until they will never
>> misspell either one of those words again."
>>> "I make them show all their work in math and hide it all on their final
>> drafts in English."
>>> "I make them understand that if you have the brains, then follow your
>> heart, and if someone ever tries to judge you by what you make, you pay
> them
>> no attention."
>>> "You want to know what I make?"
>>> "I make a difference."
>>> "What about you?"
>> 
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