Teachers are to be inspirational, motivational and encouraging to all.

Appalling this is still taking place, I remember a black Pediatrician sharing the conversation she had with a caucasian teacher at her graduation. "When I told my teacher my dream and aspiration to be a pediatrician, she told be I would be a great Cosmetologist. I repeated to her, not a cosmetologist a pediatrician, and she repeated three times, you will make a great cosmetologist". At 15 years old I knew she was trying to break me, hence, I was determined to live my dream.

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 What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.-George Bernard Shaw