Food for thought~ for all the teachers around the world!!!

I have come to a frightening conclusion. 
                                         

I am the decisive element in the classroom.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make
A child’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides
Whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated.
And a child humanized or dehumanized

~ Haim Ginott