RANDY HOWE has taught public school at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and did his administrative work at Teachers College Columbia University. Currently, he teaches special education in Connecticut where he lives with his wife and two children.
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IntroductionThe Importance of Teaching and LearningThe Backbone of DemocracyThose Who TeachThe Philosophy Behind Good TeachingThe Need to Think Outside of the BoxThat's What the Silence Is For: The Process of LearningDiscipline and Classroom ManagementThose We TeachThe Motivational and the InspirationalFrom the Agreeable to the Outright LaughableBiographies
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"Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself." "Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail." "Everything they become, I also become. And everything about me, they helped to create." "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." "Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."