True Teachers

 

True Teachers

 

What, pray tell, is a teacher?

What does a true teacher do?

A teacher loves without a reason

A teacher pulls you through . . .

All the lazy days, the hazy days

A teacher lets you know

What you are now, what you could be

True teachers help you grow.

A teachers knows that real respect

Is something that you earn,

And although the teacher teaches

She's always willing to learn.

A teacher is more than a chalkboard

A teacher is more than a pen

A teacher changes the future

Though she never knows quite when.

So as you stand in your classroom

Know you're part of the race of rare creatures

Who stand out from the average instructors,

And call themselves true teachers.

 

                    Melinda Danae Poitras

 

"A teacher affects eternity: she can never know where her influence stops."

(Henry Brooke Adams)