Odyssey of the Inquisitive Educator

If you are looking for more money, you are in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong vocation. However if you are a person who have strong beliefs, principles and dedication for our next generation, a school is the place for you.

The sole gladification that a teacher get comes from the gleams off the eyes of the children when they do well and carried with them the memory that you have changed their lives.

A teacher is a like a higer calling, sacrifices for the pursuit of imparting knowledge without seeking returns. Don’t mistaken a priest who is working for money and a priest who is working for a higher calling.

Both may be wear the same robe but the heart is different.

About Teaching

The best teachers don’t give you the answers. They point the way & let you make your own choices, your own mistakes. That way you get all the glory, & you DESERVE IT.

“I’ve come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous 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.”

- Dr Haim Ginott

Social Discipline Window
(Counseling)

Failures are the stepping stones to success. Without failure, we’ll never learn how to succeed. So try to fail, instead of trying to avoid failure through fear.

Deep down, the one fear that most of us have is the fear of not mattering. Not mattering enough to the world around you, to the people around you, wanting to be purposeful but not knowing if that purpose means anything. Some wear this fear on their sleeve, others try to repel it and cover it up with humor, cynicism, hate or nonchalance. But whatever we do, that fear of not mattering resides in all of us. We are made of matter, we want go matter, but we don’t know how to do so. So we do everything we can to try & figure it out. We start families, we find jobs, we form ambitions, we dream, we fight, we love & hurt; there is no escape from this wanting to matter.

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1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

Kent M. Keith

This is a documentary explaining & expressing the education of Finland.

Review of this on here.

(The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System)

I am curious…

… as to how the education system of Finland works, & how successful they are in the world (in fact the top in world rankings in the past few years).

Finland produces one of the most creative & successful people in the world, as proven by the innovation of global home grown brand Nokia, & also recently, Angry Birds.

Is there any Finnish educator or a student out there who can tell me how it functions via their own personal experience? Or someone who isn’t Finnish, but has gone through their education system?

This was the first video introduced to us as our first module of Psychology begins.

The importance of words, the arrangement of expression, will either bring indifference, or appreciation.

(Filmed in Glasgow)