Alan Wood
8/31/11
Education: Response # 4
When you think of teachers today, you automatically think that they are caring people. This is most often true, because in order for someone to choose to go into that line of work, they would generally have to care about children or care about educating children. But like everything else, it is not always completely true. Everybody always ends up with a mean teacher who they don’t like. These teachers are sometimes very mean and have no place whatsoever teaching young children. But these types of teachers are a very small percentage of the overall number of teachers today who genuinely care about their students.
Most teachers try and develop personal relationships with their students, because having a relationship with your kids might as well be in the job description. When a teacher decides that what they want to do with their lives is teach, it is because of one of two reasons. They either want to mold the minds of children or because they just love kids and want to work with them. So teachers already begin caring about their students before they even have them.
Students never really bother to think about things from a teachers perspective, all we see is a mean teacher who punishes us or a push over who is cool. Students will always end up liking the push over type of teacher better than anyone else because we can do what we want and get away with whatever. Students don’t live the other type of teacher, the mean one who punishes us, because it’s the exact opposite, we don’t get we want and don’t get away with whatever. All we can think is “they hate me”, which is completely untrue. Sometimes it takes someone who really does care about you in order to do make the tough decisions in life, like punishing. Not to say that a push over type of teacher doesn’t care, it’s just that they care about you and want you to like them, so they decide to be the cool teacher and not the mean one. But as students we never see that, we never see who really cares about us and who doesn’t. We are never able to see anything from the other person’s perspective.
Occasionally there are those teachers who are just straight up cruel people and have no place at all teaching kids. I once had a teacher who was so mean; he threw a math text book at me just because I had to stand up from my desk to see the white board because I was too short to see over the kid sitting in front of me. People like that, who unleash their anger on innocent students have no place in that line of work, but yet we have them and there will always be the select few who are like that. This however does not depict all teachers or even the majority of teachers today. Because most teachers today are truly caring people who care about their students.
Works Cited
Noddings, Nell. "Caring In Education." Encyclopedia of Informal Education (2005): n. pag. Web. 30 Aug 2011. <http://www.infed.org/biblio/noddings_caring_in_education.htm>.
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