one of my professors today said something that, in one poignant collection of words, summed up my entire reason for becoming a teacher.
i am, of course, paraphrasing it, but it went something along the lines of this: social studies help students understand the world and the stories of the people that live in it. it teaches its students how the past has affected our present and how our present will predict our future. but most of all, social studies teachers should aim to allow their students to believe that they have agency. they should believe that they can act on the world and change it.
this is my life's goal. i so desperately desire to show others, especially our youth, that they have power. they have agency. they change the world just by living in it and they should use whatever talents, skills, brilliances they have in their every being to positively change humanity.
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