The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.
What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.