Life Lessons from Working with Great Teachers

As David Brooks says: Children learn from people they love. If you have all the competence and training in best methods and have not love you will fail. If you persist in love you will learn to master your foibles and failings and even transcend them and be a great educator. Perhaps love isnt all that really matters but it is the sine qua non of the work of an educator. Not only are relationships essential in education but they are also the key to a long happy and productive life. When we build relationships we build community. The culture of that group of people is where happiness lies.