Our headmaster is retiring this year. He emailed us all the following quote as words to "teach" by. I love it and will read it often in the years to come.
“ I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the
decisive element in the classroom. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher, I possess the power 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 de-escalated and a child humanized or
de-humanized.” Haim Ginott
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