Honesty and Humility... Rice and Corn (By: Oluremi Ann Oliver)

It is true that a good teacher knows that they are always learning. I learned two very important lessons today.

The first is that one (meaning me or you) should never eat corn and/ or rice prior to teaching a class unless you are teaching from a stage in a very large lecture hall and your students are at least twenty feet away from you. Spitting on your students is way not cool. And by the way: did you know that the degree of bombing potential increases exponentially based on the amount of rice and/or corn consumed?

The second, and perhaps more profound lesson is this; that if you teach from a place of honesty and humility, your students will love you and will forgive you an occassional fall from grace even when it is that you have jspit on them.