You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!
Interpretation
Dreaming is essential for teachers, as it allows them to envision impactful experiences that can reach students globally.
In this quote, Christa McAuliffe emphasizes the importance of dreaming for educators, highlighting how dreaming can lead to innovative teaching methods that transcend traditional boundaries. By imagining teaching from space, she inspires teachers to think beyond their classrooms and consider their role in shaping a global community of learners, ultimately making a profound impact on the lives of students worldwide.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire young teachers.
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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