Educate comes from the Latin e- (out of) and ducere (lead or draw) - it means that education is about leading out of the student what is already there. Socrates (according to Plato) thought that the job of the teacher was to help the student to discover what he (mostly he in those days) already knew. This is the underpinning of my philosophy as a teacher.
My other core inspiration comes from Roger West, who said that 'The heart of education is education of the heart.'
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