Gliders

There are just some teachers, 

that are just too cruel to be teachers. 

Maybe that's just their style, 

and it does result in getting through thick skulls,

but I almost wish that I could address the professor and reveal the way my mind works.

I am completely receptive to knowledge, 

I look forward to adhering to my destiny,

whatever lies in it. 

But some of the more harsh methods are truly unecessary.

There's no need to slap a student clear across the face for almost asking a question.

I wished I had asked more if this was meant to happen in the first place.

Teachers are meant to have patience,

and work with students, 

not against them in order to watch them fall and laugh in their faces. 

Life, in it of itself, was never meant to be fair, but this is truly ridiculous.

If I were a tutor of ice skating,

and they didn't have the ability to get back up, 

I would tell them to stay slipping on the ice and try to almost glide over the frost.

This way, 

they'll get wherever they needed to be eventually, 

just not as graceful as they shoud have been taught.

I'd have understood that not everyone was built to pass my class,

some of them are meant to learn that mistakes are so common 

that every move they might make could lead to their downfall,

and it will, almost each and every single time.

I would know because I would have made each and every one of those motions myself.

I will have been thrown to the ground in what were meant to hold perfect pauses.

I would have known what it felt like to be my own disaster.

And even as a teacher, 

I will still be a student to the blades on my skates,

and the bruising on my sore knees. 

I will have glided to many a place in my education,

but what makes a teacher a teacher is their ability to spark potential in her students.

That essential connection to them,

even if it only lasts a second at a time.

I would not want my students to perfect their art,

I would want them to have glided so many times over perfection

that they see that it will never be as essential 

as perfecting their connection from their art to their true selves. 

Human Dignity + Compassion = Peace.