When I started researching teaching careers I came across two comparisons to teaching that struck me to be true.
The first compares teaching to being a lighthouse. The teacher is a lighthouse; the rocky shore is the unawareness and lack of knowledge. The students are boats in the sea that is life. In this simile the teacher has students coming in from all paths. Some may be fancy yachts and other simple canoes, but they all need guidance so that they don’t crash against the rocky shore. The second compared teaching to giving inoculations. Where the teacher is the doctor the information is the medicine and the child is the patient. And to some degree I agree, some children if not all will resist education. They will say it is boring, it is too hard and that it is not worth the pain. Similar to a doctor who distracts a child to give them the vaccine teachers must find a way to educate their student in a manner that is interesting and that makes the child forget that they are learning.
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