The Quality of Educational Institutions: Well-Trained and Virtuous Educational Directors and Teachers

In this article, I attempt to present the relationship between high quality of educational processes and well-trained educational directors and teachers. To obtain this virtuous circle we assumed that educational directors and teachers must be open-minded teachers and own a deep commitment to high quality education, sustained on the conviction and ability to help students to path in the way of searching truth and promote a clear interest in the real formative schedule of new generations. Subsequently, the issue of well-trained and virtuous educational directors and teachers is discussed, highlighting the importance of being good examples insofar as humility, intelligence, love, faith, and reason are concerned while critically being interested in others and being open to different ideas and perspectives. Finally, I present the importance of a humanistic education as a reference guide line of an educational model with quality, which is reflected in the teaching ethos, helping students grow appropriately, while the management ethos reaffirms the importance of service and dedication within the overall context of a proper education. In sum, I conclude that to achieve a quality education, both educational directors and teachers should evidence a number of conditions and virtues that enable them to better themselves and help others grow both through example and a coherently balanced and healthy lifestyle.