3594. The Classroom Atmosphere where Students Can Work Peacefully

 The teacher. The teacher has to wish to make up a classroom atmosphere where the students – most of them may wish to learn and work – can find and encounter the ambience where they can actually learn and work. 

That atmosphere is one where delicacy, culture, respect, civilization, working minds, can be encountered. The students thus are serene and peaceful to learn and work. They are thus treated with those delicacy and respect. 

The teacher in the meanwhile manages to motivate his or her students. And these ones also want to get plunged into the topic they are dealing with in the classroom. 

But if the teacher is harsh and covetous and he just tries to get a jail-like behavior-management, and he just shouts at his students… well, he will not make up that culture atmosphere where his students can learn and work peacefully. 

These students are assisted to make up and take up virtues. That word comes from a Latin word, vir, which means strength and force. For a virtue is not just a mere repetition of actions to create a habit, but it is something more: one person is responsible of his or her character and virtues. You mold your character through the actions you undertake. As philosopher Alejandro Llano puts it, at the age of thirty years, you are responsible of your face. One person’s character is the result of the actions, thoughts, projects, habits, virtues, etc. he or she undertakes. You cut out your character. You make up your character. 

Some ideas for this post were taken both from Alejandro Llano and José Bernardo Carrasco, two clever and thorough teachers themselves. Have a nice day. Oh, something else: you mold your character by living and working with other people: we have no Robinson Crusoes in our classrooms. Well also he found another person, Friday.