“My teacher yelled at me for nothing”,  “She said I was fiddling with my toes in the class”, “He talks too loud, scares me” we hear these words from school going toddlers. It is unfortunate that some teachers don’t have a clue how to teach, forget inspiring, they are not sure why they are teachers!

Luckily, there are many wonderful teachers in our lives who inspire us with their kind appreciation, a pat on the back when we did well in something. Here is a nice piece by Artist Joyce DiDonato on Teacher’s day –

Joyce DiDonato’s Seeds Of Confidence

As a wily third grader, I was sent home with a note under strict instructions from the normally genteel Mrs. Miller: “Be sure that your parents see this right away when you get home.”

Gulp.

Boy, was I in for “it.” My life was surely about to change for the worse — solitary confinement for sure, and no Shaun Cassidy records. I knew I had entered the village of the doomed and forlorn.

The walk-of-shame home took an eternity. Finally, with shaking hands and eyes that never left our green and orange shag carpeting, I wearily handed the note to my father and waited for the sentencing.

“Well, that’s interesting,” he rumbled. As I dared to raise my timid, shameful eyes, his stern appearance held my gaze, saying, “What do you think we should we do about this?”  I fought with all my might to hold back the burgeoning tears and I bravely mustered a weak, “It’s OK – I’m ready for anything.”

Read more here –

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2010/09/29/130214129/joyce-didonato-seeds-confidence