Nice teachers show children that life is a game and that games have freedoms and barriers. They teach strategies for winning “the game of school” by showing their students how to figure things out and by making learning fun.
Really nice teachers insist that students have high moral standards, strong personal values and that they respect the religious beliefs of others. Such teachers never back off from disseminating “The Golden Rule.”
Excellent teachers do not force students to memorize facts and regurgitate them back on test papers. Their motto: “Let students make robots if they want; but never make them be robots.”
Great teachers reward production and teach benevolence and the dangers of tyranny. They know that when a nation honors education and self-determined students, it possesses the antidote to slavery.
If every teacher were nice, really nice, excellent and great, what a wonderful world it would be!
