Show and Tell
As a 7 th grade English teacher, I work with and am one of those people who aims to control. I would not say I am what many have coined a “control freak,” but some days I come close. In a classroom setting, teachers are told, they must have control of their class. This can look lots of ways, but most importantly, when teachers do not have the students’ attention, they are not really teaching anything at all. And it appears that what they have to say is not worth the listen, though in most cases, this is very far from the truth. There really is no way to control another being, to make someone listen or do what you say. We can influence, but we can not control. Even in the penal system, control of the inmates is not really that. It is an influencing, if the listener decides that the speaker has something that is needed. Still, the listener may not do what is being asked, but the seed was planted. This is the case with most things: People speak; we listen or not. We speak; people