Lisa DembouskiFaculty

My colleagues and I in the Education Department prepare teachers. I am, myself, a teacher. In his book It won't be easy, fellow educator Tom Rademacher describes our noble profession like this: "Teaching is like putting together a puzzle without all the pieces. On a table that is too small. Also, the puzzle is on fire." And so is that too-small table...and your hair!

So now if any of you are thinking to yourself, "Well, if that's true, well then, why on earth would anyone ever want to teach?" Rademacher's got that covered, too, when he goes on to write, "Ask three different people who their favorite teacher in school was. Watch their eyes...[and listen to the joy in their voices] as they describe those special people." You ... we... get to be that.

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