Real teachers have their best conferences in the parking lot. Real teachers have never heard an original excuse. Real teachers buy Excedrin and Advil at Sam's. Real teachers never plan discussions for first period or co-operative groups for 7th during an evaluation. Real teachers have the assistant principals' and counselors' home phone numbers.
Real teachers know secretaries and custodians run the school.
Real teachers know the rules don't really apply to them. You empty your pockets at night and find 1. You have seen firsthand what gum wrappers and pennies can do to a floppy disk drive You write your name conspicuously on all personal objects, including your car keys, your masking tape, your textbook, and your chair. If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as to continuingly be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. In teaching children we must seek insensibly to unite knowledge with the carrying out of that knowledge into practice.