A Teacher's Power

I have come to a frightening

conclusion that I am the decisive
element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that
creates the climate. It is my daily
mood that makes the weather.

As a teacher, I possess tremendous
powers to make a child's life
miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of
torture or an instrument of
inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or
heal, in all situations, it is my
response that decides whether a crisis
will be escalated or deescalated and a
child humanized or dehumanized.

~~~Haim Ginott~~~