Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past. Most teachers rarely discuss the important topic of the future of their field, and when this is pointed out they usually reply: “No one can know the future.” It seems to me the difficulty of knowing the future does not absolve the teacher from seriously trying to help the student to be ready for it when it comes. It is obvious the experience of an individual is not necessarily that of a class of individuals; therefore, any one person’s projection into the future is apt to be somewhat personal and will not
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