I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a childs life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal. In situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated and a child humanised or dehumanised.
Hain Ginot ‘Between Teacher and Child’
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