Perhaps our greatest entertainers shouldn't be on the improv circuits, but in the classrooms. Perhaps our most powerful communicators shouldn't be on talk radio, but in those classrooms.
Let's give a little more consideration as to whether being an entertainer and a persuasive communicator are really things necessary to make a great teacher. I'm just tossing them out as possible pluses.
Now, short hours ago, I read a Facebook post from a wonderful person I know, asking for prayers on his behalf as he tries to hire on as a teacher at a certain school. It occurred to me, he might not be of the highly entertaining type. (I don't know, though. I've never seen him teach.) Still, I so want him to get the job.
That thought brought second thoughts to what I was preparing to say here. But, I write on, the same.
I'm just wondering if we could funnel some of our greatest entertainers and persuaders into the classroom would that be a plus? I think it might.
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