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Unfortunately not any doctor is a good doctor or even an exceptional doctor. 
 
Unfortunately not any teacher is a good teacher or even an exceptional teacher. They 
take home the salary all of them, but they act very differently. One doctor might 
actually be preoccupied not with you but with something completely else. One 
teacher might be teaching for the sake of the salary and not the children. Many 
schools support the perception that the teacher is the most important person, the 
essential one, at the school and correspondingly the teachers at such schools 
perceive themselves as the important ones, those with a job-given right to abuse 
children by treating them as inferiors, just like former colonial masters treated the 
common citizen. The most common perception among schools, teachers and 
ministries of education is probably that the children are objects, they are like empty 
buckets, and it is the job of teacher and society to fill as best they can the buckets 
with curriculum, with stuff already thoroughly chewed and recognized as stuff. It is 
by far more unusual that the school ground or the classroom is a place where 
surprises are played out, where the good laughter is laughed, where the intellects of 
the children are challenged, where actions requiring organization are carried out. 
 
Whether the school or the teacher belongs to this or that prototype, depends entirely 
on the teacher. It is the very personal decision of the teacher, depending on the 
teacher&rsquo;s own personal history and choices made. That choice has far-reaching 
consequences - and immediate as well - for the classroom and every child in there, 
whether joy and learning reigns or only one voice is heard and when the voices of 
the many are heard it is solely in the form of repetition. 
 
The teacher of the future has to not only make her own choice and dare to be 
different, but also has to understand what she is up against in the form of other 
teachers of very different prototypes and motives and in the form of an institution 
with the wide-spread tendencies of complacency, shortage of inspiration, shortage of 
communality, shortage of culture and so on. 
 
The teacher of the future must know who she herself is in relation others. She must 
face the challenges of being different and the attacks on what is different. She must 
get to know the terrain on which she is struggling in order to better know how to 
move on as rapidly as possible. She must get to know the various ways of being 
teacher to understand who is who and why therefore this and not that is possible to 
do in the class, in the school, outside school, with parents, and with teachers. 
 
Therefore it is a very complex thing to be a teacher. The teacher is influenced and 
being formed from many sides and demands. It is therefore important that the 
teacher becomes conscious about her role and her very own touch to it. 
 
The task is to consider various different roles of people in the position as teacher and 
to discuss whether they &ndash; according to your stated view of the ideal teacher &ndash; fulfil 
the role.

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