San Marcos High School - Crown and Sceptre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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0n Teaching nd Teachers The people who give students an education must have a desire to learn themselves, not just a desire to expound the wisdom and knowledge they have obtained through the years. They must possess a desire to see the next generation take over the world that their generation has run for their allotted time. In a way, they must want to make the impression of the responsibilities these young people are taking on as they enter into the open society of our world. They must cherish the opportunity to help bring about a better world through teaching the right things to young people. This, perhaps, is the true desire that lies behind the aging teachers' eyes that have watched so many children become adults. What are the anxieties these people go through, in worrying about th impressions that they are making? Do they ever worry that perhaps they may be teaching the wrong things for the future? What future do these young people have? What kind of future will the young have made when they in turn become old? ls it their teachers' right to make these impressions that affect the future? There are no real answers to these questions, and in having no answers teaching becomes a hestitant, perhaps doubtful profession. ls it really worth it, knocking one's head against a solid wall of young eyes, trying to show a concept? Sometimes it doesn't seem to be. to some 7 age' -i

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df teachers. In bridging the gap between generations, doesn't that make the work worth it? To actually open a young person's eyes to something, and see this person learn something valuable in the process? This effect is laid not only upon the teachers. The students also must have desires to learn. In realizing that perhaps the teacher has something to say, it should be easier to learn. But it doesn't always work that way. The teacher is not able to bridge the gap all of the time, for the student must be willing to reach over that gap also, and meet the teacher halfway. This is the most frustrating part of education, of bridging the gap that separates the teacher from the student. Perhaps another problem lies in that sentence right there. The teacher should sometimes realize that the roles must reverseg the teacher must become the student, and the student the teacher. Students have things to teach, too. Defining the roles too strictly of teacher and student only widens the gap between them. There must be mutual understanding that together, the two can learn from each other. This is no doubt the most valuable thing learned in the education process. Learning is a life process, it is growing. To grow we must learng and to learn how to learn is the real process of education.