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            Students soak in the negative and positive influences from a teacher whens its being reflected upon education, so a passive teacher will result in changing the entire learning attitude for students in a negative way.  For instance, in The Passion Project, which was organized by Skye Ontiveros and created by college students, an argument about passion coming from students’ perspective, claimed that “we kinda have to know about the teacher and we gotta feel like the teacher is real, like he really or she really truly wants to help us” (5).  This shows that students strives to do better, with the knowledge of knowing that the teacher is interested in benefiting a student with an efficient education.  But if a student witnesses an impassionate teacher who isn’t very thrilled with teaching and does not connect with their students, the class itself will feel the exact way with learning, which creates a negative attitude throughout the entire classroom.  Instead of being extremely passive, teachers should be required to connect with their students with a positive attitude, “instilling passion…constant communication with the students and constant reassurance” (Ontiveros 6).  It is extremely essential for a teacher to have an encouraging attitude towards teaching, connecting with their students and creating ways to make students become more insightful with the meaning of passion.  This will result with a student who will engage themselves with school in a positive manner, and will most likely strive to do better with learning.

            Teachers who are impassionate about teaching, promotes an attitude like they’re not taking students’ educational values as seriously as they should.  This issue can easily transition to students wanting to rebel against teachers when it comes to the importance of their education.  For example, Jeff Bliss, a student who walks out of his class due to the actions of his passive teacher, states, “You gotta, you gotta take this job serious.  This is the future of this nation” (Bliss).  Bliss is referring to how teachers, in general, are in need to take the initiative to realize how necessary it is to teach the incoming generation of students with great passion, and demonstrate the importance of education to their students, which will eventually be the future of our nation. Teachers do not understand how important they are, especially if it’s in regards to a student’s success with education, for they are our main foundation towards a path of success with education.  Students are most likely prone to failure with the lack of a strong foundation from their teachers.  Teachers who views their job as “oh this is my paycheck” (Bliss) and not viewing their job as to benefiting students to a greater future or career and are setting a bad example of the importance of where education can take a person.  Teachers are a physical example of where education can take you in life and are suppose to be inspiring role models for students, for they are the ones who open doors to greater opportunities for the future.  A teacher, who doesn’t take their job seriously and not understanding the consequences of how that attitude can affect their students learning ability, is extremely harmful to a students’ educational path.

            Impassionate teachers, which highly affect their way of teaching, lead to students who become uninterested about learning.  For example, I have encountered myself with professors at Chabot College who always have a similar statement towards students throughout the first week of a semester, and it would be stated after he or she would go over the syllabus and discussing the amount of work and hours we should put into our work then goes off to a discouraging message like “if the work I’m providing to you is way too difficult, out of your range, or your just going to right off the back not even try, then I suggest that you should drop out of my class immediately/right this instant”.  As a student, listening to that type of tone and message from a college professor is declaring upon their students is pretty hurtful and dispiriting.  It makes us feel like a waste of time or generates a sense of lack of intelligence, for we begin to question our abilities with learning and determining whether we’re smart enough for the class.  This then leads to students not wanting to take education seriously due to discouraging comments like that, especially when its coming from a teacher or professor, for they are suppose to be highly encouraging and a constant reminder upon why education is an essential to becoming successful.  Teachers do not only need to be the ones to give students constant reassurance with learning but are also suppose to keep students interested with learning by producing differently teaching techniques.  For example, in the article ‘Passionate Teachers Create Passionate Students’ by Mary G. Powell, Powell states that “by handing some of the teaching materials over to the students, you are letting them know that you trust them and feel they are responsible and intelligent enough to be involved in their own education” (53).  This demonstrates an efficient teaching style that most teachers should take in consider of, for it allows students to take accountability of learning something by handing it over to them rather than just teaching everything word by word.  It permits students to take ownership of their own learning, which eventually result with students being more engaged, and cooperative with learning.