Teacher vs Educator

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Lipstick in School

According to a news report, a certain private school in Sydney 's Eastern Suburbs was recently faced with an unusual problem. A number of the girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally the Headmistress decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet bowl, and cleaned the mirror with it.

The silence was broken by a large number of gasps, a few girls vomited and apparently someone fainted. Since then there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers . . . and then there are educators.

Bflygal comments: Lately I have been thinking alot, from should I go back schooling (but I don't want to waste my money and time hiding in school anymore... I rather self-learn stuff I want to learn) to should I try teaching (of which this story reminds me that what I really want to do is be an educator.. except do I have the capability?) to if only I am good in photography to be able to join Photography without borders and picture a better world. Unfortunately I am neither good in medics, nor in photography. Headache.