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I do? She said ‘What do you want to do?’
DA SILVA
My first job interview, I asked the supervisor, what should
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As a teacher, to be given
that kind of open space, that kind of
mandate-less position“Weto cannot
be in deny
where
can create
thatyou
the school
did notout
giveof
their students
all the that
possibilities
should
the emptiness, it allowed
me to create
kind ofthattemplate
give them, abhorred poorly endowed, forced
them to acts or tasks that overthrew them in
like to do today? Whattheis soul
yourthepassion?
you?’
first seedsWhat
of spitedrives
or revolt,
it gave them at almost exclusive care who
voted to know, leaving in the shadow what
If the students have the interest and you build towards that,
is most important - character formation and
then they can come with
more passion
for learning.
development
of intelligence
- all conditions to
come to be what they are now, if they not left
school with love to school, it is not their fault,
— John Hunter at NBC’s Education Nation
but the school.
for my students, where I co uld ask them, ‘What would YOU
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