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No takers?
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
George Bernard Shaw
QUITE A wicked way of looking at teachers, but never more true than now. Teachers are a diminishing race. Nobody wants to teach. Everybody wants to do — corporate, software, medical transcription, medicine, engineering, hotel management... The list of career options is endless. And when all doors shut, teaching is explored.
Two indispensable vocations that affect the future in a big way, teaching and homemaking, are hugely underrated. They're both gruelling, thankless jobs. They are both paid for in smiles and milestones. Both can get painfully lonely. Both have a lot to do with women and a lack of choice. Both teachers and mothers strive to give Mrs. Patience a complexIt's time we saluted our teachers (and mothers) for their balanced act on the criss-crossing tight-ropes; for bringing method, while living madness; and for holding up the hot, burning torch, so we can all see better...
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