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Recently there was a report in the newspaper about a young student who was told by his headmaster that he had no future.

There have been protracted arguments over whom to blame between school teachers and parents for low high school graduation rates.

Today at noon my wife and I went to a luncheon hosted by the local Rotary Club to honor the Teachers of the Year in our school district.

Jellen’s post on boredom at school has inspired me to write on the topic. Obviously my experience with schools is in Australia (and university in China but that is not part of this post), and as it is many years since my children went to school, some things have changed.

I’m an alumni of Central Michigan University. CMU lost today in a televised football game on ESPN2 against Purdue University and I don’t care. I didn’t care if Centrals football team won when I was a student at Central and I don’t care now that I’m an alumni of CMU. I’ve always felt that student athletes are given preferential treatment inside as well as outside the classroom.

Teaching is a very rewarding experience. But like anything else that is rewarding, it also is very demanding.

A teacher is at fault if s/he does not do his/her best to help the student become all he is capable of becoming. The teacher's goal should be to become dispensable to the student. That is, the teacher should want to be outgrown by the student. The teacher should strive to provoke the student to think for himself!