Teachers Today Can't Take To A Child.

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

Not Just Any Talk Is Conversation; Not Any Talk Raises Consciousness. Good Conversation Has An Edge: It Opens Your Eyes To Something, Quickens Your Ears. And Good Conversation Reverberates: It Keeps On Talking In Your Mind Later In The Day; The Next Day, You Find Yourself Still Conversing With What Was Said. That Reverberation Afterward Is The Very Raising Of Consciousness; Your Mind's Been Moved. You Are At Another Level With Your Reflections.

It's Not Enough Just To Be A Mother. It's Not Only The Social Pressure On Mothers By Certain Kinds Of Feminism And Other Sources. There Is Also Economic Pressure On Them.

So When You Consider The Archetypal, Historical, And Cultural Background Of Whatever You Do, It Gives You A Sense That Your Occupation Can Be A Calling And Not Just A Job.

Teachers Today Can't Take To A Child.