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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
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Everybody knows that Bravo a Champion !
This is the type of teacher I aspire to be and I was truly blessed to have a teacher like this in school.
Wish I could send this to my teacher-
Brilliant speech. Thanks meanwhile:)
Do not deny your Animal heart body! Mammals are social and familiar by nature!
Every child needs a FATHER!
Wow, so powerful!
All what we can become starts in our minds… and I think it’s just incredible how that invisible “little” thing can change a person.
Make people think they can achieve anything, and they will.
What an inspirational woman. The power of human connection is truly underrated.
There is nothing like a Black teacher! No slight to any others but the expressions, love and determination oozes from Black women teachers. I don’t know what I would’ve done had I not experienced being a student of a Black woman.
White teachers are the best. I’m glad I had white teachers.
@Leftie Snowflake and one more racism, probably to make a point.. Yeah, humanity is indeed fucked
@Just Some Nameless Soul What do you mean?
@Leftie Snowflake “black teachers are the best, white teachers are the best, yellow teachers are the best, green teachers are the best, purple teachers are the best”, this is racism, stereotypical racism
If that were true, we’d have a glut of Nobel Prize winners from the inner city. Instead, we have the likes of George Floyd.
What an excellent educator!
This is the type of teacher my school lacked when I needed it..
Powerful
Fathers are really good at this.
I miss you..
Just Spectacular!!!
The education is the only way to get there! Not just to be a successful person, but first of all to be a happy person and somebody that makes a better would in the life experience.
Wish I had teachers like this
I’m not a teacher… Does this still apply to adults like me?