The mission of a teacher should be to teach students - how to think, not what to think. Posted: Oct 16th, 2020 - 5:44 am In Reply to: Boy, 12, dares to speak up for President Trump in class. Teacher asks - student why he supports 'a racist and pedophi
I had an anti Vietnam War teacher in school (showing my age). I had lost my father so I relied on certain other adults. He told me this despite his left wing views. i always remember that.
Again, he told me that his mission as a teacher was always to try and teach his students HOW to think, not WHAT to think. And while he was always happy on some level, when a student agreed with him, that he would regard himself as a profound failure as a teacher if all his students did so. It would mean he’d failed to teach them to think for themselves.
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