My Misson (I Chose to Accept)

My mission as a teacher is to effect change in my students' personalities - to change who they are as people. In particular I endeavor to infect them (Latin in-facere - to effect within) with the intense curiosity which empowers genuine learning. I believe that learning is not real learning until it is affective - until it has effected a change in the students' outlook on life and their worlds. What kind of change am I looking to produce and how do I gauge the effectiveness of my efforts? Until they have integrated the 'ideal teacher' into their personalities they have not learned or more importantly learned how to learn. My function within this milieu is to model specifically how the ideal learner learns (problems solving strategies, research skills, etc.), impart this to them, and then totally take myself out of the equation. I am a success to the point that they no longer need me or even need to remember me or my teaching.