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Student Successful After High School

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Rough draft #2 What makes a student successful after high school? Is it the goals they set and then achieved? Is it because of the support of family and friends? or is it the teacher? Teachers are the hardest working people on the planet.They create the foundation in which a child will learn to be comfortable in life, but what makes a good teacher, what qualities do these teachers have that help a student become successful in life. Students are affected by the teacher and the teacher by the student like how Plato became one of the the greatest philosophers in the world because of his Teachers aristotle and Socrates over centuries ago. Plato even opened the first higher learning institution in the western world because of the warm affirmation of his teachers Aristotle and Socrates. Likewise the teaching world is very different from one thousand years ago such as the dwindling requirements to become a teacher which could decrease the teacher's ability to teach effectively. This …show more content…

Many people have different ideas on how to make good teachers but that does not mean they know the right way to change it.in the article "LET ANYONE WHO HAS A COLLEGE DEGREE TEACH." retired principals James Howey and Daniel Cheever Jr. give their differing opinions on what would make the teaching system better. For example Howey says: “He says that teaching as a profession is not granted the recognition and respect it deserves. Here, I would assert that teachers have only themselves and their elected representatives to blame”. This shows that Cheever believes teachers are not respected enough while Howey believes that teachers and the people above them are responsible for the way they are treated and this reflects back on how the teacher will be reflected in a student's eye and if it will affect them in a positive or negative

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