| Sumario: | This article focuses on the influence of the culture and its institutions on a teacher's personality. Teacher behavior is seldom improved by those who consider their task completed when they have handed out a few pertinent suggestions for improvement. Effective teaching is basically an expression of the total personality of the teacher. Understanding the teacher involves understanding the culture which has helped shape her personality. Most present-day elementary school teachers have been reared in a society where the individual appears to be of little importance as compared to the impersonal stereotypes. Teachers growing up in such a culture learn the behavior patterns that are acceptable. Cultural patterns are carried in the feelings, perceptions, and experiences of people. The modification of cultural patterns is effected only by inner struggle and conflict within people. Some elementary school teachers are fearful of the possible results of giving children greater freedom. There are teachers who attempt to divide themselves between two cultures. At school they pledge their by loyalty to the needs of children, the climate of permissiveness, the acceptance of all.
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