Friday, November 19, 2010

Learn for life.


People choose their professions for many different reasons.  It could be a passion, a skill, monetary, a calling, or for a humanitarian cause. But for teachers, it is a safe assumption that they choose it for the intrinsic reasons of truly valuing the human mind and the ability to make a difference in a child’s life.
The motive behind teaching varies, but stays basically in the same category of giving back to society.   Students receive a formal and informal education that a price cannot be placed upon.  It’s a gift given that a tangible show of appreciate could not hold value to the intrinsic gift that is received. A teacher passes down knowledge of the past that will help make sense of the present guides a young mind to making logical choices for their future. That gift of knowledge received by the student is an irreplaceable present that is build upon through a persons’ lifetime.   

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