The Difference Between Teaching and Educating
According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem.A number of 12-year-old 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 principal 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.
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, and cleaned the mirror with it.
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers …
And then there are educators.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Why are janitors always so wise? Do they study to learn how to do that?
Brilliant.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:52 am
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May 19th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It wasn’t that recent… in The Australian Readers’ Digest, November 2004, page 37, this was published by Phil Proctor under “Life’s Like That”… identical story, bar the location. (Washington was not mentioned)
Ha! Get me a position on “Media Watch”!!!