A Lie All Teachers Should Believe
What is the most empowering belief a teacher can have?
That’s a question I was recently asked. A few answers came quickly to mind:
All students can learn.
I make a difference.
The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I believe the most empowering belief a teacher can have is a lie.
How, you might wonder, can teachers be expected to believe a lie when they know it’s a lie?
The same way we walk around believing all sorts of lies in spite of knowing the truth.
For example, we believe we’re better than others in all sorts of ways, even though our logical brains know how unlikely that is. Researchers have found that we rate ourselves above average on everything from our driving ability to our academic performance to the quality of our personal relationships.
We persist in the belief that more money will make us happier, even CONTINUE READING: A Lie All Teachers Should Believe - Teacher Habits
