Though I know your teaching day is long and exhausting, with a seemingly endless list of tasks and responsibilities, I ask that you take a few minutes to find a quiet place. Maybe grab a cup of coffee or tea. Take a few relaxing breaths. Then read the following transformatively powerful words of Alexandra K. Trenfor: “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” Eighteen words that truly embody the spirit of teaching and education at its best. Isn’t it fantastic? I wish I had read that forty years ago. For I must admit that all too often I have worked to get students to know where to look, so I could tell them what to see. The wisdom of that wonderful quote begs the question of how much better a teacher I could have been – and how much better off my students would have been – if I had heeded its message. Well, it’s never too late to teach this old dog new tricks.
Peter Loel Boonshaft, Director of Education
KHS America
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