This year, 50,000,000 students will be in elementary and secondary schools. Each day they will listen and learn values and ideas from their teachers.
And, what about their teachers’ values and ideas?
“Each teacher operates from a set of unexamined beliefs about the nature of teaching and learning, about knowledge, and about the purpose of education itself.
Teachers base their thinking and behavior on unconscious values -personal, professional, and those of the culture in which they live and were raised. Often, personal values conflict with values of the institution, administrators, and even with a teacher’s own values regarding students.”
-Johns Hopkins College of Education