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chocolat27 мая 2010 г.It's a mistake to arrive early. It gives you too much time to think about what's going to happen.
4194- chocolat29 мая 2010 г.Читать далее
The classroom is a difficult but exciting place. You'll never know the effect you've had on the hundreds of children you teach. You see them leaving the classroom: dreamy, impolite, smiling, admiring, puzzled. After a few years, you learn to read their minds quickly. You wouldn't exist for long in this job if you didn't. You're with the kids and, if you want to be a teacher, there's no escape. Don/t expect help from the management, those people who have escaped from the classroom. They're busy going to lunch and thinking higher thoughts. It's you and the kids.
3155 - chocolat28 мая 2010 г.
Then Guy told the class about his experiences in the last two years. He'd suffered, but he wouldn't want to change anything about his past. He'd met many people in many hospitals whose lives were completely destroyed by illness and accidents. It had made him think differently about his own problems. It had made him feel lucky. No, he wouldn't change a thing.
393 - chocolat28 мая 2010 г.
One boy says it's strange to have a teacher who worked like a normal person. The boy says he used to think he wanted to work on the docks because the money was good. You could steal things easily. But his father was angry with him, and you don't argue in an Italian family. His father said,"If this Irishman can become a teacher, you can, too. Forget the docks. You might make money but what good is that when you can't straighten your back?"
381 - chocolat28 мая 2010 г.
They'll carry bits and pieces of your private life in their heads forever, and you'll never get them back. Your life, man. It's all you have. Tell them nothing.
378 - chocolat28 мая 2010 г.
Professors of education at New York Univercity never taught you how to manage flying-sandwich situations. Should I say, "Hey, Petey, come here and pick up that sandwich?" Should I pick it up myself and throw it into the wastepaper basket? They had to recognise I was boss. I was strong. I wasn't going to accept this kind of behavior.
379 - chocolat27 мая 2010 г.Читать далее
Teenagers? In Ireland we saw them in American movies - angry-looking, never smiling, driving around in cars - and we wondered why they were angry and unsmiling. They had food and clothes and money, and they were still mean to their parents. There were no teenagers in Ireland, not in my world. You were a child. You went to school until you were fourteen. If you weren't polite to your parents, they hit you across the face with a belt. You grew up, got a boring job, got married, drank your beer on a Friday night, and kept your wife busy with babies.
374 - chocolat27 мая 2010 г.Читать далее
They'll fly you to Hollywood, where you'll star in movies about your own life. But this won't be the end of the story. After evenings in the company of the most beatiful female movie stars, you'll discover the emptiness of their lives. You'll listen guiltily as they tell you how much they admire you. You've become a Hollywood star because of your caring attitude toward your students. And they, the beautiful movie stars, are ashamed of the uselessness of their Hollywood lives. If they left Hollywood, they, too, could enjoy the rewarding pleasures of teaching the future dock workers, typists, and store assistants of America. it must feel wonderful, they say, to work every day with the young people of America. Your low pay is unimportant. Your real reward is the light in your students' eyes as they bring you gifts from their grateful and admiring parents:cookies, bread, and home-made wine from the mothers and fathers...
374 - chocolat27 мая 2010 г.
Teachers are spoken to politely but they aren't respected: they're congratulated on having such long vacations. When teachers stop working, they disappear into the shadows, hoping that one child will remember them. Keep dreaming, teacher. You won't be celebrated.
373 - chocolat27 мая 2010 г.
A teacher's life is simular to a life of a professional fighter. One bad fight, and that's the end of your career.
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