# Giving Thanks (To Teachers)

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**Published on:** 2011-11-23
**Categories:** thanksgiving, teachers
**URL:** https://continuations.com/giving-thanks-to-teachers

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Since I am taking tomorrow and Friday off from blogging, I figured I would write about giving thanks today. I am finding a great many things to be thankful for from good health to amazing work (that frankly doesn’t feel like work at all). But the specific thing I have in mind today is giving thanks for and to the teachers in our lives. I am always encouraging our children to thank their teachers, whether it is in school or for a sport or hobby. I tell them to think ahead of time about what they have learned from that teacher so that they can say something specific. It’s not just good discipline (what did I learn?) but I remember from my Dad who was a teacher that it meant a lot to him when students thanked him. Formal teachers are not the only ones we learn from though. And so this Thanksgiving I find myself particularly grateful for the many people in my life who have effectively been teachers for me at one point or another. I am using teacher very loosely here, but I am grateful those (friends, partners, even strangers) who explain something or simply challenge an assumption that I held or didn’t even realize I held. Thanks!

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