I believe in love. I believe it is one of the most powerful of tools to bring change to people's lives. I believe if we want to improve our society, and really make some changes, we ought to look for places where we aren't using this tool enough, and apply it.
Places like our schools.
While the nation grapples to find ways to improve education, is it giving any thought to adding larges doses of love? Why not? If love really is a tool to bring change in lives -- and, I don't know if anyone would disagree -- why wouldn't we seek to ensure we're pouring all the love we can on the students?
We should teach the teachers how to love and hire teachers who know how to love. Love is largely a matter of exuding warmth, of smiling, of being understanding and not condemning. Teaching with love is so vital, yet probably isn't currently considered in hardly any of our hiring interviews. The ability to love should be a hiring requisite. The interviewer should ask the potential teachers how they would go about extending love and hire only those who provided persuasive answers.
I would guess there is much room to increase the loving potential in the teachers we already have, simply because many of them are probably just not thinking of it as a tool of good teaching, but they are loving people by nature. It will be easy for the them to up their level of loving since it is an emotion natural to them.
The expression "no child left behind" should apply when it comes to love. Often, the students who fail are the ones who feel rejected. If we don't want to leave any behind, we should make sure none are not getting ample amounts of love.
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