Should you teach if you don't have a passion to be a teacher?

You don't have to be a hero to inspire a hero. Your life, whichever stage or phase you are in, is enough to inspire someone. One day, my 8-year old niece asked me if I could help her use a rice cooker. It was her first time to try to use it by herself. read more

No. If you don’t have a passion for teaching, you can’t expect your students to have a passion for learning. One begets the other. If you don’t have a passion for teaching, and yet you do it, you are robbing your students of the experience they deserve. read more

Too many high school teachers in CS (but not just in CS) are teaching about things they are not passionate about. Passion can not be faked. The reality is that many teachers are going to be forced to teach things that are outside their core interests. That doesn't mean the course has to be a failure though. read more

He is a world-renowned physicist, but it is when he talks about teaching undergraduates that his face beams. Ellen Peffley, a horticulture professor at Texas Tech, says,"If you don't love teaching, you ought to be doing something else." For great teachers, I found that teaching is a calling, something they must do to feed their souls. read more