The exposure and display should not create stress and entrapment, but meaningfully stresses release, individual growth, change, development, discovery, and excitement. All this means that teaching is not easy or peaceful. Forget that the students are different from each other, from class to class, from term to term. In any given class and term, the students are changing all the time. We're changing all the time.
Teaching is an investment in that change.
Teachers must believe in change otherwise we wouldn't be teaching. Every time we enter the classroom, talk with a student, touch another person on e-mail, we teach something to someone, we learn something from someone. I really don't know why people aren't just dying to teach. It's a fabulous adventure, maybe the greatest. I'm different for having written this to you, for having read what you write to me.