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Teaching is not so much a job, as a calling, not about building a career, but serving a community and developing minds and hearts for a life of learning. It has nothing to do with numbers or letters beside your name. It is growing a psyche that is adaptable, innovative and good. This is a greater challenge than just getting people through exams. It requires ability not learned in academic study, or watching film clips, but through experience, trying out ideas and watching people. It certainly cannot be measured by tests, but is grown over a lifetime of questioning. Some have called it “thinking outside the box.” We need to go way beyond boxes and out into the great, glorious world that we have been given. If we are to avoid failure, we must realize that the academic is not all. This frame of mind requires sincerity- the driving force behind respect and care. Honesty and cherishing the value of the human spirit, will keep true Education real. Something has to change in us all...