I found that it I have come to the frightening conclusion
that I am the decisive element in my classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life (in my classroom)
miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration, I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.
At all times, it is my response that decides whether a
crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a child is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat our young people as they are, we make them
worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them
become what they are capable of becoming.
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