Edu-Cats

If there is one thing She will always tell you, it is how much She loved teaching children. It makes Her smile, whatever She is doing, to talk about how She somehow knew what to do to make children learn things. I laugh until my sides ache when She says it starts with order. No, not orders, order. If you could see what I see here at Her desk, you would believe She wouldn't know order if it sat on Her shoulders. But in school She started with order. She did not speak loudly, like He does. As quickly as He gets frustrated and starts to yell, He wouldn't have lasted two days as a teacher. If She got loud, it was from enthusiasm, and Her students knew that. Another trick was to seldom say no to students. If they asked to do something, She was likely to say, sure, as soon as..........and then name some time, like when the bell rang, or when the work was done. It was not Her style to tell a student he was wrong. She might say, that's one way of thinking, or, that might not work because (whatever) She didn't like Her children to be sad, unless it was from a story, and She could say why does that make you sad? She would give rewards. Sometimes people would tell Her She was wrong to do that, but She knew that some people need to know why they had to do something they didn't want to do. If you are in your seat when the bell rings, you get a candy. If not, you don't. It got some children in their seats faster, and all it cost Her was a bit of candy. Sometimes She would do arithmetic with a bunch of ads. She would tell them to buy so many of a certain thing and tell Her the price. She didn't like giving a lot of homework, especially when Her students had hard lives at home. Some parents wanted more, so She would give them some ideas of how to help their children at home. I like talking with Her about teaching, because it always makes Her smile. It makes me smile to know there is something named meat loaf for our dinner tonight. I will like that. Talk to you later.