Why I Teach

Why do I teach?

Because billions of years ago…

That’s where I’m starting; strap in.

Billions of years ago there was a pop, a bang, …we don’t know for sure. But we got a start.

Then there was an explosion. Everything rushing and bouncing into other rushing things. No one knew what was going on, who they were or what way was up. But it started to settle. Some of the particles got close and built some relationships. We started getting some elements.

Cool eh?! Stay with me.

Then people started teaming up. Particles and elements learned what worked and what didn’t. They tried out all sorts of different relationships until the sky was full of stars. Big burning bright stars shining across a sky no one could see: because we weren’t there yet.

And then the stars exploded.

There’s a lot of explosions in this story.

And from those explosions we started to see really complex things take form. Amazing elements that bandied together in an infinitely complex relationship and made planets.

That’s where life comes in.

Life that just one day perks up and says: what if we combine things this way?

That’s what life is. A relationship. Bodies of oxygen and carbon and hydrogen and a bit of magnesium and calcium. All held together through sheer force of will.

Us. Together. Who then go on to form greater relationships. Each person bonding with others, with their world, with their ambitions and dreams, with themselves.

That’s what life is. A collection of relationships.

Just like a school.

Relationships:

Between students and teachers

Teachers and families

Students and families

Between students and the world, their work, themselves, their ambitions, and dreams.

You think you go to school for a diploma?

No

You go to build relationships. You go to understand yourself a little better. You go to understand that the world is unfair and full of rigged games. You go to understand that success for one person may look like hell to another, that whatever yardstick you use to measure yourself: you´ll be wrong.

You go to learn exactly how amazing you are, how you can do the things that someone said you just can’t do, how you can learn 5 languages, do a doctorate, make a billion, run a country, have a family, write a book, be happy with another person and be happy with yourself.

This doesn’t come on day one, or day one thousand and one. This comes step by step, inch by inch across your life.

Every day at school is a day you start that journey. Every day can be a big bang; a beginning. Every day is a day teachers, friends, and family will convince you that you can.

That’s why I teach.

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