Orangeville High School - Red and Blue Yearbook (Orangeville, Ontario Canada)

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WHAT IS A TEACHER? Teachers, like little boys and girls, come in all shapes and sizes: small, medium, large, lean, long, short, fat, skinny, and the giant economy package with the well-,known desk spread . Some teachers are poor, and others are poorerg mostly they are somewhere back of the middle., lf nothing happens between now and the next payday, they may get last month's bills paid by month after next. But something always happens, Forgotten were those new glasses, or that fountain pen, or that revolving budget account, And how could anyone know that the 1,950 Ford was going to need a new tire? According to his students, a teacher is an unfeeling machine, a slave driver, a crazy old fuddy-duddy, an eccentric maniac, old vinegar puss, and a real absent-minded character, lust get him off the subject, pal, and he'll talk all period about his trip through the smokies. A teacher can give a book review for your literary club, listen to a pupills woes with understanding, direct a chorus, design and make a suit, put on a show, cook up a banquet, sponsor a prom. production worthy of Broadway, figure your income tax, publish a yearbook or a newspaper, and answer all kinds of questions ,..o most of the time., flt is agreed that sometimes it does the student more good to look it up, D He also has complaints, frustrated parents, attendance reports to make out, report cards to be scored, excuses to be signed, lessons to be planned and studied, and a deskful of perpetually ungraded papers upon, which he often, toils well past midnight, That is just the occasion for a neigh-t bor to remark, You teachers surely have an easy sixmhour dayn As time passes, a teacher finds that he learns much more through teaching than he ever did ln college. He soon realizes that, although he has all of the standard qualifications, teaching is one job that takes more than requirements: namely, patience, courage, understanding, and above all, experience., Never was a more apt statement made than, A teacher learns to teach by teaching, He also discovers that a sense of humor .is as necessary for teaching as is a umversity degree. After that first day, when he enters his room, somewhat fearfully, to find 30 bright and shxlnfing faces waiting for inspiration., he real- izes that here are 30 problems, the answers to which no book contains. But

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he learns that the answers are before him each day in the persons of those 30 problems. As the years roll on, a teacherls once bright eyes may be-Q come a bit dull at tirnes, and his drive may not be what :lt was wh.en he was out to reform the worlds, I-le may often grow weary and discouraged, but at such times just a word of appreclatflon or the news of a former studentls success can somehow make it all seem worthwhile. Every year he says, llll quit next yearg this job is killing me, But somehow he rarely does, and if he does. he soon comes back, or is unhappy in his higherapaylng position., For a true teacher will always be a teacher, he will never lose his desire and respect for knowledge. Nor will he ever lose his desire to share that knowledge. Kentucky School Journal Joke Betty was in tears at the thought of leaving her first-2 grade teacher at the end of the term. Oh, she said 'ro the teacher, lf only you knew 'enough to be promoted right along with me. Definition of a bore., Someone who, when you ask how he is tells you. Filing Cabinet: Where papers get lost alphabetically.