Patience

1. Patience An active, not a passive, virtue

2. Patience • Persistence allied with a determination to help others learn • Restraint, rather than release • To harness frustrations and fatigue • To keep a steady eye on what they hope will be others’ understanding of what they teach

3. Patience • Patience enables teachers to suspend disappointment and frustration • Allows teachers to bear with students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings • Teaches students to strive and strive again to get something right • Provides an example of behavior that the best teachers are always trying to provide

4. Patience • “Patience gives students time to learn.” • Patient teachers restrain themselves • Patient teacher extend themselves without complaining • Teachers accept the responsibility of extra work when they take up their calling • The graceful acceptance of necessary tedium

5. Patience • “Patience takes into account the weaknesses of youth.” • Teachers are foolish if they expect their students to behave prudently and with discretion at all times. • Inappropriate behavior can be turned to good use with restrained indignation.

6. Patience • “Patience hopes for, assists the growth of, but does not anticipate maturity in students.” • What cannot be corrected becomes more tolerable with patience. • What teachers pretend to tolerate with patience may after all be corrected.

7. Patience • “Patience suffers fools gladly.” • The challenge to teachers is to channel youths’ natural ebullience into the search for knowledge without dampening their curiosity and fun.

8. Patience • “Patience never loses sight of the goal.” • Keep your eyes on the prize. • Allow nothing to distract or deter

9. Patience • “Patience gives rewards to the self.” • Blaming themselves for their students’ failure to learn can hazard their success as teachers. • Helpful to remember that much responsibility for their students’ learning and maturing lies with others.

10. Patience • All teaching is an exercise in patience. • Sometimes it is our students we must endure; sometimes it is ourselves. • “I can’t go on; I’ll go on.”