Maria Gianna Iannucci at her blog Reflections on Existence as an educator at Mercy High School in Middletown, CT. has written courses in Astronomy and Cosmology, Neuroscience, and Medical Botany for the High School level, wonders why she came to teach.

Betonwerksteinskulptur “Lehrer-Student” von Reinhard Schmidt in Rostock (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lots of educators do feel they have a calling. You might even call it a drive which brings them to put themselves at the site at the service for others. Many may have different reasons why they choose to become a teacher. But for sure one can not be a good teacher when one does not love the matter or subject one chooses to bring over to others. In a certain way the one who wants to teach properly must be
in love with God’s new creation. {Why I Teach…}
Every year again the teacher gets to see youngsters which have many questions and lots of aspirations, but also many who do not see the reasons of existence any more and do not know where to go to. It is up to the teacher then to show them some light and many reasons to go forward.
With each generation that moves forward on the earth, hope is born.
when one teaches in class or comes to write a blog, sometimes an other way of teaching and preaching,
It takes contemplation, inspiration, creativity, consistency, and commitment…all those things add up to one thing…love. {A Note To All My Followers}
Without commitment and love for the other one can not bring such life in teaching that can inspire others to continue to do further research and to grow in the knowledge of science, arts, and so on. Without the commitment to the good of others, wanting to give oneself to the other and to give as much usable information as possible. This free giving, with the knowledge that one can not know everything, that each of us is limited, but by sharing information we all can grow.
As teachers we do also have a mission which should make us to do our utmost best to fulfil the mandate given to us. Our direction should inspire those in front of us and should make us to want to go further than our generation.
Sometimes at the expense of your own wishes. I am committed to holding space for peace and real love in a world that often does not understand what that means. Our behest should also be to bring knowledge and peace, living for the moments “when our students wake up and look at us with new eyes”
as the universe expands beyond their capacity to comprehend. {Why I Teach…}
Maria Gianna Iannucci stands with the young at the threshold of possibilities, when they begin to realize their true purpose.
They catch a brief glimpse of a Love so expansive it leaves them breathless and in awe. I teach for the moments when they see in each other a reflection of the cosmos and the Love that animates it. {Why I Teach…}
I teach to awaken those who slumber, to comfort the grieving, to rejoice with those who dance, to bring hope to those who believe they live in a meaningless world. {Why I Teach…}
for many it may seem a meaningless world, and today with not many prospects. But by opening their eyes to the past and showing them it is a continuous act of reflecting back to mankind and to each of us, individually and in group, that we may come to see much more clear and see that there can be a line of continued hope.

A special education teacher assists one of her students. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The female writer might, like I have done throughout the years I was teaching them, trying to show her pupils the beauty of our world, always referring back to the master Hand behind it,
so that they see with clarity, the beauty of the gifts they were given by the Eternal One. {Why I Teach…}
I can only hope students remember something from what their wanted to teach them plus from what he or she wanted to show them how we as human beings had to move on in this world. I sincerely hope that
Maybe my students will remember the unconditional love and respect, the feeling of being safe and cared for, being known and cherished for who they really are …and carry that out into the world. {Why I Teach…}
Whatever our purpose here on earth, we having been placed here, have to be fostered, guided by others, who want to guide us thorough our growing up process. even when many do not want to know that
We are brought into existence together for the purpose of growing into the very Love that created our hearts and the stars {Why I Teach…}
each educator has to show that way, with lots of patience and hope for the future.
Maria Gianna Iannucci one of her aims of her classes is to show young people the value of the plants for food and medicine to help keep these spaces free. When we look how far people have grown away from nature this is essential. We should have more teachers showing kids how man should be united with nature.
It is sad that nature is not appreciated in its own right, that we have to extract something from it.
Educators should continue with their unending efforts of trying to bring the parts of the chain of knowledge to youngsters and showing them the tools to handle everything what comes in front of them.
I always hoped that by personal endurance or forbearance I could bring some sparkle to lighten the brains of those in front of me and to get them too look for new ways of building up their own life and a new future. Sometimes our way of looking at things, or way of speaking, perfidies that we are a teacher. (Even on holiday so many asked me if I was a teacher.)
“Once a teacher, always a teacher”
is how Steve Schwartzman see and I it.
The blogster ends her article
To teachers past and present who have dedicated their lives to the restoration of earth and the cultivation of the human. Why I Teach…
with a quote from the French philosopher and paleontologist known for his theory that man is evolving, mentally and socially, toward a final spiritual unity, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“As soon as humans have woken to explicit consciousness of the evolution that carries them along, and begin as one to fix their eyes on the same thing ahead of them, are they not, by that very fact, beginning to love one another?”
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Additional reading
- The first question: Why do we live
- Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #7 Education
- Too many pupils for not enough teachers
- Passion and burn out of a teacher
- A learning process for each of us
- For those who make other choices
- Fools despise wisdom and instruction
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Further reading
- Live List of Education Books
- The Simplest Question Needs the Simplest Answer
- Science: A Great Source of Metaphor…
- Teaching ruminations
- What My Student Teacher Taught Me
- Oh, The Power You Have…And Yet May Not Even Use.
- Banning teachers from work
- 5 Educational Concepts We Need To Eliminate In 2017
- In memoriam George Aditjondro
- Thoughts About How I’ve Just Finished School Forever
- Reflects the core values of Career Toppers
- An Open Letter to My Firsts
- What Is a Traditional Teacher?
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- Critiques of Groupwork in ESL Classrooms
- Native Speaker Privilege and Unprofessionalism within the ESL Industry by Kevin Hodgson
- Conversation with my favorite teacher
- Worried
- There is Only One First
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- Shakespeare and High School English Teachers
- Tempest-uous Spring Planning
- The Girl on the Piccadilly Line
- Dear Students
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- About Me (miss Natalia)
- About Me (miss Lindsey)
- Teaching the Pre-Modern Post-Election
- Organisational Challenges are Usually Technology Related
- From business administration to midwifery education: Sara’s midwifery journey
- The little school in Huilongguan
- Feedback – perfect this and everything else falls into place!
- grading
- Internet Roundup: Education Part 7
- Teacher “number 4”
- Shock! My blog has been neglected again.
- Clashes with Colleagues.
- I have applied for a new job.
- Let’s Sum Up – My First Term.
- First Semester Down #madeit
- Maybe Sunday School Would Be Better If It Were Actually School
- Grateful the Time is Near
- I’m sure what you meant to say in that email critiquing my repertoire choices was thank you…
- New Day, New Start, TEFL wobbles stabilised
- Why are languages being taught like math?
- First Semester Review
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- Time to recharge
- A Tale of Two Educators
- Teaching Others about Jesus
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