It seems to say little about the coming of the dawn that can herald an unknown future brightness. I guess I really had something on my mind. About such matters I do not wish to be abstractly intellectual. I will not be scientifically theoretical, and I do not wish to idealistically philosophical. I cannot be detached.
Education is a human issue.
It's about human life, human hopes, human dreams, human futures. At least, for me, there is nothing impersonal, detached, abstract, theoretical, or cold about issues dealing with real people. We can fool ourselves into believing that our job is just to teach a subject. But, the truth is that no action by a teacher is impersonal, no attitude is detached. Like it or not, by gesture or word or glance, by display of concern or disinterest or disdain, by inclusion or exclusion, we touch students' lives.