" Providing Choices": A Reflective Teacher 6

As teachers, we provide the tools necessary to allow our students choices during their lives. One of our tasks is to help our students remove the limits that self-doubt promotes. We must not produce one-dimensional twits, that merle parrot-back the information we as teachers present. That is not teaching; that is presenting and it has no business in an effective teacher's classroom. There is no gain in this monologue. No teacher should feel remotely successful if that is the end result of their instruction. These teachers have withheld their service and only performed a duty. They have robbed their students and short changed the public. They have not fostered the free thinkers that are so vital to a democratic society. Instead, they produce the robots that cannot calculate with a calculator; cannot reason unless there is close supervision and are content to be average.
If done correctly, teaching is most difficult. It is never mastered, never completely understood and is always in a state of revision. As teachers, we do not turn out a finished product we offer our service to individuals for a short period of time and add to the reasoning process. We teach them how to process in a positive productive manner and to reason. Anything less, is a, sham and does a terrible disservice to everyone involved in the educational process.