I love teaching because it gives me a sense of responsibility. It is this sense of responsibility that gives my work meaning. Strip away the sense of responsibility teaching gives me and I will no longer love the job as much as I do. This is because responsibility is at the heart of meaning, and it is meaning that truly makes us happy in life. Viktor Frankl, a Jewish man enslaved in Nazi concentration camps during World War 2, observed that those who lost their sense of meaning would surely lose their lives. He volunteered to work in camp ‘hospitals’. Other slaves said he was crazy. Why?…
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