It’s All About The Teacher

“When it comes to the quality of a child’s education, it’s all about the teacher.”

In fact, according to an analysis of the world’s top education systems by McKinsey & Company, “Research has shown that of all the controllable factors influencing student achievement, the most important by far is the influence of the classroom teacher.”

An inspiring teacher can turn nothing into something, a negative into a positive. In return, the students talk excitedly about what they learn in class and develop curiosity to learn more about the subject.

In the international stage, the structure of the teaching profession differs from country to country. These countries record top scores year after year in international examinations, putting them in the lead in education quality.

John Merrow, a teacher and education journalist, shares in his book The Influence of Teachers on the importance of the teacher-student relationship and its power to transform individual lives and society as a whole.

Meanwhile, New York Times columnist David Brooks commented, “If I had to summarize the progress we’ve made in education over the last decade, it’s that we’ve moved beyond the illusion that we could restructure our way to a good education system and we’ve finally begun to focus on the core issue: the nature of the relationship between the teacher and the student. People learn from people they love. Anything that enriches the space between a student and a teacher is good. Anything that makes it more frigid is bad…Rigorous instruction has to flow on threads of trust and affection.”