All Things Class

I ABSOLUTELY love this picture and saying!!! One that needs to be shared with ALL teachers :)

I love this! I have taught everything from three year old children to upper elementary and have found that the older children get the less they are able to think on their own.  Many have no critical thinking skills and they have seemed to have lost their imaginations as well.  I wonder if this is because so many teachers talk the preschool children to death while they are playing...telling them what they are doing and "giving them ideas" on what they should play or how to play" thus not allowing them to develop that creative side themselves as well as allowing them to work for those critical thinking skills.  We as teachers of all ages need to listen more and talk a whole lot less!