The difference between teaching and educating.........

Mr Bridger Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:18 am

The difference between teaching and educating

According to a news report, Golden Grove high school
was recently faced with a unique problem.

A number of 14-year-old girls were beginning to use
lipstick and would put it on in the toilet. That was fine, but after
they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror
leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night the maintenance man would remove them and
the next day the girls would put them back.

Finally the head Masterdecided that something had to be done. He called all
the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She
explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the
custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the
maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out
a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with
it.

Priceless!

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers....and then there are educators!