I'm always excited about beginning a new school year. After 30+ years of teaching I never tire of the challenges that are put before me. Summer gives me an opportunity unwind,relax, and rejuvenate as I reflect on the accomplishments of the previous year. August comes around and I'm ready to get another school year started. When I meet my students for the first time and see their enthusiasm and joy for school I'm inspired to begin a brand new adventure in teaching and learning.
As teachers we come together in inservice meetings to prepare for our students. Words of inspiration are often shared. Here's a message I'd like to share with you.
Only a Teacher
I am a teacher! What I do and say is being absorbed by young minds who will echo these images across the ages. My lessons will be immortal, affecting people yet unborn, people I will never see or know. The future of the world is in my classroom today and this future has potential for both good or bad. The pliable minds of tomorrow's leaders will be molded either artistically or grotesquely by what I do.
Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be thieves and murderers of the future.
Just a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant everyday lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow.
Dr. Ivan Fitzwater
As teachers we come together in inservice meetings to prepare for our students. Words of inspiration are often shared. Here's a message I'd like to share with you.
Only a Teacher
I am a teacher! What I do and say is being absorbed by young minds who will echo these images across the ages. My lessons will be immortal, affecting people yet unborn, people I will never see or know. The future of the world is in my classroom today and this future has potential for both good or bad. The pliable minds of tomorrow's leaders will be molded either artistically or grotesquely by what I do.
Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be thieves and murderers of the future.
Just a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant everyday lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow.
Dr. Ivan Fitzwater