Every action and the phrase we say and do in response to the latest tensions impacting us domestically or globally mimics our personal assumption of whether we agree or disagree with them. In George Michie’s We Don’t Need Another Hero, he identifies teaching as a political act since teachers are unable to provide a neural classroom when the classroom functions on their personal basis. This assertion assumes every teacher’s lesson plans, and teaching of the curriculum exemplifies their assertion of the subject either in opposition or agreement with it. In response to Michie’s assertion, it is relatively easy to reflect on past classroom environments to see how teachers knowingly or unknowingly project their personal basis of a subject in their teachings. Thus, it is fair to agree that Michie’s assertions do prove consistent with past, present,…show more content… Teachers can easily manipulate the curriculum to fit their personal beliefs behind certain subjects without even knowing that they are subconsciously doing it. Consequently, a teacher’s personal basis shows whenever they pay particularly more on a subject than other subjects because they are at liberty to choose what topics to cover so long as they can prepare their students for their exams. If teachers can control the material that students learn, then they leave the students to only pay importance in what they learn in class and forget about any other matters relating to the subject. Subsequently, the way a teacher manipulates and influences a student to believe in one subject over another pays tribute to how politicians influence the American citizen to pay more importance to one global conflict than the others plaguing the world. Nevertheless, one cannot dismiss the assertion that teaching is a political act because what a teacher teaches in her or his room defines what a student will deem significant or
