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truly wants the respect of their students they must first model it by giving it.

"The secret of education is respecting the pupil." Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Respect is learned and then earned.

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon." Ann Lieberman

Teachers have a direct connection to who their students are and who they will become.

"Treat people as though they are what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being." Goethe

My goal, my dream, was to be a teacher. I never made it to the front of a classroom, but nevertheless, I became a teacher. I teach my children the faith and the values and the morals they need to have and then I build on the knowledge their teachers impart on them. I tend to the seeds they sow, but just a seedling cannot grow without sun and water and care, a student cannot learn without praise, encouragement and time. Next to a parent, a teacher can be the most influential and guiding force in the life of a child.

"I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son." Thomas Wolfe

Every action a teacher takes, every word they utter and every mood they have, whether it be for a moment or a day, will effect and impact the lives of the children they teach. A child should never leave a classroom feeling a failure. A child should never leave a classroom with guilt or fear or shame.

"Education . . . is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning . . . by praise, but above all example" C.B Neblette

A student should walk away knowing even if they failed, they have the opportunity to succeed the next time. They need to walk away knowing their teacher believes in them. They need to walk away and want to come back.

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement." Anatole France

For every seemingly troubled' child, there is an underlying reason for their every action, whether it be emotional, mental or physical, there is a reason. Children are born with the innate desire to learn and please. The child labeled problematic was born with the same desire; something or someone along the way robbed them of it. A good teacher can help find what was lost. Some children may seem unreachable, even unteachable, but those are the ones who often have the greatest potential to learn.

"A child miseducated is a child lost." John F. Kennedy

Sometimes a teacher will see the fruits of their labor

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