Educating_Esme

Educating Esme Educating Esme by Esme Codell 1. After reading Educating Esme, I believe that it is clear that Esme Codell is intrinsically motivated to help foster learning in children. Although she is a very bold teacher, with an unusual personality, she is not simply trying to draw attention to herself. She may believe that doing things in an untraditional manner helps her to teach her students well; which might be why she chooses to be called “Madame Esme.” When a student asks her why she goes by “Madame” instead of “Mrs.” Like everybody else, she responds that she is not everybody else. She clearly prides herself on being an individual. Mr. Turner had a problem with this because he is a very conventional man. He thought that calling her “Madame” had a “whorish” connotation, and was just too out of the ordinary, and above all against “board policy.” Esme wanted to be called this because she wasn’t married, was too old to be referred to as “Miss, “and didn’t want “Ms.” to be mispronounced as “Mrs.” Turner strictly follows certain rules without realizing that bending them might be better in the grand scheme esme, students, teacher, because, about, teach, must, important, classroom, thought, things, student, learning, children, being, very, turner, same, madame, each, differences, class, billy, able, understand, thinking, teaching, resolve, reading, proud, out, one, mr, might, learn