Interesting Quote

"German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1960), himself a very self-disciplined personality, cautioned educators, “But on the whole we should try to draw out from their own ideas, founded on reason, other than to introduce such ideas into their minds.” This notion drawing out reasoned thought appears again and again in the literature still today(Cahan,1994,p.158) To Tolstoy and Kant both the notion of a hired gum approach to education would be an anathema. There is as Robin Barrows (1984) explains a sharp difference between principles of classroom management and control and principles concerned with developing the mind. In an educational institution, all principles should be subordinated in the end to those which develop the mind." taken from http://cie.asu.edu/volume9/number2/index.html

I like this quote because it deals with balancing classroom management and activities that develop the minds of students. I have had teachers who because of students who constantly mis-behave, could only focus on managing the classroom. As much as I believe in educating every child, every day; I don't want what happened to me, happen to other students. There doesn't seem to be a solution to this problem in public schools. I have a feeling that if I allow myself to get worried about problem students, I will probably get burned out of teaching quite quickly. Learning how to balance this problem, and allow for learning to take place in my classroom is one of the goals I know I will have to be commited to for my whole career.