In this book, Teacher You Are Precious, the author, Bernadette Rodricks dhm, shares with the readers her insights and experiences gained from the thirty-one years she spent teaching at various levels, from primary school to university. With the best interests of students at heart, she invites teachers to incorporate in their teaching certain values which will endear them to their students and reap an abundant harvest of goodness and beauty.
“… to be a good teacher is not merely to know the subject, not even the syllabus that is to be taught. What is called for is sensitivity, thoughtfulness and love… She traverses the difficult terrain of discipline equating it, quite refreshingly, not to punishment, but rather to guided self-enhancement… In the words of Hodding Carter, there are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give to our children. One is roots; the other, wings. This book gives both.” (From the Foreword by Rt Rev Dr Agnelo Gracias, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bombay.)
