A Teacher as a Legitimate Authority: Trust and Respect
Words: 818 1177A legitimate teacher is not the one who speaks loudest or assigns the most work but the one who earns the right to guide us through trust and respect. When Dr. Morris entered my sociology classroom last fall, she did not announce her credentials or demand silence. Instead, she asked us to name one rule we thought schools should abolish, then listened without interrupting for twenty minutes. That small act made me rethink what it means for an educator to […]