"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth."(William W. Purkey)
William W Purkey is an Author, Writer, Researcher, Speaker, a Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education, which means he is a retired professor but is allowed to keep the title in honor of him, and he is also the co-founder of 'The International Alliance for Invitational Education. His passion for teaching has earned him many awards of excellence. Purkey has authored about 100 articles and more than a dozen books. His books mainly focus on how to educate effectively with energy, how to counsel effectively through positivity, and how to succeed with educating a diverse variety of students. He classifies a student as anyone who seeks knowing and learning and idolizes and pedestalizes every student as the most important person ever. He goes on to say that “we are dependent on students, not the other way around; students are never an interruption to our work but the purpose for it; we are not doing the student a favor by serving the student but instead the student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.” He takes a very energetic, positive, passionate, free-spirited, and eloquent approach to emphasize how education is supposed to make you feel more so than what education does for your future. The future comes, he encourages you to be the student all the way.
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth."(William W. Purkey)
William W Purkey is an Author, Writer, Researcher, Speaker, a Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education, which means he is a retired professor but is allowed to keep the title in honor of him, and he is also the co-founder of 'The International Alliance for Invitational Education. His passion for teaching has earned him many awards of excellence. Purkey has authored about 100 articles and more than a dozen books. His books mainly focus on how to educate effectively with energy, how to counsel effectively through positivity, and how to succeed with educating a diverse variety of students. He classifies a student as anyone who seeks knowing and learning and idolizes and pedestalizes every student as the most important person ever. He goes on to say that “we are dependent on students, not the other way around; students are never an interruption to our work but the purpose for it; we are not doing the student a favor by serving the student but instead the student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.” He takes a very energetic, positive, passionate, free-spirited, and eloquent approach to emphasize how education is supposed to make you feel more so than what education does for your future. The future comes, he encourages you to be the student all the way.
