...and you feed him for a day. Teach a man....
OK, that's the problem today, actually teaching someone anything. Students today don't want to be taught, they want to be given the answers. Not the information, no... they want the EXACT answers to the EXACT questions. That's not teaching and it's certainly not learning.
And please don't ask students to even consider taking notes. They won't, that's below them. Besides, that's actually asking them to take the initiative and learn instead of just spoonfeeding them.
Of course, when the students fail the test, it couldn't possibly be that they didn't take notes, or they didn't do the work, or they didn't study. No, it's obvious the test is simply too hard.
But I won't back down. These students need to learn the subject matter. Thanks to a certain test called the TAKS, they've got to...
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That's the conundrum of your chosen profession. You will never really know which lives you've touched. The majority of the seeds you're planting won't flower for years. While you're getting discouraged by the obvious loafers, there are a quiet few who are getting it and will grow up to change the world.
And that's all it takes.
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