Comments on: Valuing Teachers/Valuable Teachers

By: andar909

andar909 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:19:49 +0000

hi, andar here, i just read your post. i like very much. agree to you, sir.

By: Mayim

Mayim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:16:59 +0000

The goal of a Humane Educator, and ultimately of all teachers, is to take the natural beauty of youth, the compassion and empathy which is unbound, and cultivate that compassion by teaching children how to make compassionate (well educated) choices.

Many of us started out with an innate compassion. An innate desire to avoid inflicting pain, and when our teachers or parents taught us that we could protect others from pain by avoiding creation products, or supporting specific organizations, we wanted to do those things because we wanted to protect the lives of others, because we felt compassion for them.

By: Matt Langdon

Matt Langdon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:23:26 +0000

When I was in college and since I’ve been working with college aged people for so long I certainly noticed education seemed to be a catch-all degree. It was for people who didn’t know what they wanted to do, people who wanted the summer off. That’s not to say there weren’t passionate future humane educators in that group, but the unfortunate perception is that it’s an easy route to a job with health benefits, lots of “time off”, and not very stringent entry requirements.

I can imagine what the schools would look like if the great minds of the world were in them, preparing the next set of great minds.