Friday, February 18, 2011

Do you Teach or Do you Educate?

Reflection: Just found this great video on YouTube while I was checking out some links for ICT sent by our lecturer. This video has been a challenge for me (after all in my profile I described myself as a teacher) but also an inspiration. It is not so much the term but the philosophy and the approach underlying my actions. In my work as a mathematics teacher the most important thing I had wanted to realize was to somehow make my students appreciate and enjoy mathematics.  I have also realized that my greatest achievement as a teacher along the years has been to make my students independent and able to think for themselves. In actual fact what I am called to be is an educator and not just a teacher. Hope I can live up to this ideal.                                 


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