Some teachers are truly amazed at everything students do and demonstrate this with a sincere enthusiasm. Early education teachers have the pleasure of watching their charges slowly become young adults and celebrate each triumph, whether it be shoe lacing or remembering the days of the week. As students get older however, the tendency to inflate their egos is more out of fear of parental, administrative or Board reprisal or simply an attempt to be popular with the students. By attaching these adjectives to routine achievements we are reducing their reverence. Their power and potential value is then lost when they are truly needed.
Life is full of defeats, letdowns, denied applications and lost employment.
Or worse yet, not to hear from them at all.