Love Is A Better Teacher Than Duty
Albert Einstein and 2nd Wife Elsa
Teaching is a not a profession for the arrogant. Working directly with students takes so much humility that we make a big deal of the small, meaningful encounters, and try to minimize the awful, harrowing moments we consistently witness. A kid whose mother is in the hospital from over-exhaustion at work can barely stay awake all class and finds himself in a swirl of trouble by midday? Comes with the territory. Getting him to get through this set of problems with only a small amount of interruptions? Our day is made. A kid comes in cursing up every and anything in her path and barely lets the teacher get through the lesson with her outbursts? There’s
