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The loss of authority of teachers is associated with adults that feel themselves threaten by their own children or pupils. To confront them and make a direct oposition , something so needy to reinforce their own caracter and growing

Up, now seems to be harmful. But for whom? Certainly nowadays to adults with the confusion between what is authority and authoritarian. Authoritarian needs to be adored by their subjects , authority requires responsability and strength to deal with hate and confronting behaves. Such more work to do that some adults escape to submit to progressive ideas from the experts of the day.

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Authority requires moral content which gives those exercising it the confidence necessary to give clarity and purpose to young people. There is no need to be authoritarian which is always a symptom of a the absence of authority. The word that I prefer is authoritative - a term that implies that adults have the confidence to behave authoritatively

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