Question

What does a little child think of his/her teacher? What does the child decide to explore?

Answer 1

Hint: The question is from the poem ‘Where do all the Teachers Go’ written by Peter Dixon. Peter Dixon has been surfing for more than five decades and is widely regarded as one of the sport's leading experts as well as one of its greatest instructors.

Complete answer:
The poem is about the writer wondering what his teachers are like as a child poet. It's difficult for him to believe that his teachers are regular people going about their daily lives. So he wonders where the teachers go after school at 4 p.m. Do they live in ordinary homes, doing menial tasks such as laundry and cleaning?

A teacher is someone important or special to a child. He can't imagine his or her instructor as a regular person. He becomes curious about how his teacher works, how he spends his time, and how he dresses casually. He wonders whether the teacher knows his parents or whether he, too, was once a student.
He also needs to know if the teacher was naughty and was disciplined for making mistakes. He decides to go to the teacher's house to find out the truth.

Note: The student compares his own lifestyle to that of the teacher. He wants to know whether the teacher wears pyjamas, watches TV, misspells words, and has ever been disciplined at school.That day, he tries to follow one of his teachers around to see what he or she does at home. Then he'll turn it into a poem that they can read to other kids.