You might want to stress, that their answers are anonymous, that they don't have to answer any questions they don't want to and that if they are not sure about a particular question they can always ask a teacher.

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When students get stuck they can attend a small group lesson led by a teacher, ask a peer for help, or connect with a teacher one-on-one.

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As adults, they ask a former teacher why they weren't told the truth about what awaited them.

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In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.

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Mr Gates pretended to release a few malarious mosquitoes into the conference hall, but the main part of his talk was to ask what qualities it takes to make a teacher great, and to bemoan the fact that so little scientific research has been carried out into this vital and rather obvious question.

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The instructor would ask what does a doctor do, lawyer, a teacher.

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Still, his passion for teaching -- as a child, he would ask for blackboards and teacher's editions of textbooks for birthdays -- paid off.

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As a professional school teacher, I am saddened that the public in most African countries does not ask hard questions.

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