This, this is how you be a teacher. This is how you tell your students that they have potential and that past mistakes can be fixed. Giving a student support, and telling them that you believe they can excel is very important. He’s saying he doesn’t care about her past and recognizes that she is a bright young mind that with the right support and with effort can be great. This. This is how you teach. When kids make mistakes, a lot of teachers give up on them and eventually those kids will also stop thinking that they can achieve anything. One mistake and you’re done. What’s needed is to leave room for failure, but to support success.
Not just that, but he’s also not telling her things that aren’t true. Sometimes people, especially parents, will tell children things like “you’re amazing”, “you’re perfect”, “you can totally do it”, which is great, but can create an arrogance about the child (or his/her ability). Dr Gregory isn’t telling her that she didn’t mess up. He isn’t telling her that she’s perfect or that she can do it without problem. He’s telling her that she can do it IN SPITE of her problems.
(via bleedingwillow96)
