EDUCARE – TO LEAD OUT
Sorry – just one more parting glance. Today I taught my last lesson ever. A group of Year 7 pupils – 11 & 12 year olds. It was the strangest of experiences – the utterly familiar, the entirely unremarkable, the totally commonplace transformed moment by moment into a dream as the time unwound towards 3.15. Then the kids cleared the chairs & blocks away, picked up their bags & scampered out of the Theatre. Sitting in my usual place two rows back from the stage, I felt like a ghost in the empty space. I waited for the heavens to open or for a clap of thunder but nothing happened. I got up, closed my briefcase, stepped out into the weak sunshine & walked the 50 yards back to my flat. Just another day.
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure
- Emma Goldman
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
– Anonymous
You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
-John Stuart Mill
To teach is to learn twice
- Joseph Joubert
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate.
- Tomer
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
- Bertrand Russell
A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.
- Thomas Szasz
And then this evening Roz & I joined our last Theatre Studies group down at the 3 Horseshoes. They bought us sausages & chips & all our drinks & hugged us goodbye, thanking us for having been their teachers. Not just any old day after all.
11:04:11 PM 
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