Teachers with No Passion

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Barry Webb Jr

English 1A

M. Williams

Teachers Have no Passion

            A Very important topic comes up when one talks about what makes a good teacher or what makes a class enjoyable for students. Just recently I watched The Passion Project by Skye Ontiveros and I couldn’t help but notice similarities between interviews. Most people feel that passion is something that drives us indivusal, something that excites us and gives us motivation through our love on a certain subject. This got me thinking about those teachers (who I’m sure everyone has had) that doesn’t bring such passion to their classroom. Which brought me to my question, what affect does the lack of passion by the teacher in the classroom have on their students. As brought out in The Passion Project, students like to feel a bond or reach a common ground with their teachers. This will instill trust and respect between student and teacher making class flow more smoothly and efficiently. In my research I came across an article named Support and Importance of Character Education: Pre-service Teacher Perception which touched on some of the effects on students that lack of passion in school has caused. If a teacher has no passion towards his or her job of educating the youth their attitude will only give students a bad example of how to go about life. As Jeff Bliss brought out on his rant some teachers loose there passion for their job and treat it as a “Paycheck”. This attitude makes “Some point out that today’s society emphasizes material possession over character development…” (pg2). As we know “Morals and values form an important foundation for our modern society” (Floyd D., Carlos R.,

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Christopher D., Festus E.). With these new attitudes and developments happening in society today many have linked “…problems such as dishonesty… and overall lack of respect for authority…” (Floyd D., Carlos R., Christopher D., Festus E.). My question is, what is it going to take to get the classrooms back to what it used to be and just as important, restore our society?