Teaching is often presented as a helping profession, but goodwill is not enough. A classroom is not the army, but neither is it a therapy circle. This article argues that prospective teachers need more than method, empathy, and good lesson plans: they need the temperament to exercise authority, enforce standards, and make teaching possible.
Anger is not a moral failure but a diagnostic signal — an instinct that something has gone wrong. What matters is how we interpret it. Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple shows the mature pattern: anger as awareness, wisdom as response. True discipline, in life and the classroom, restores order without harm.