I believe there is a natural progression in every aspect of human life. First, we learn to emulate one another. As infants we emulate the sounds and the movements of those around us in order to learn how to talk, walk, and do the basic functions of life. Over time, we begin to refine this emulations into characteristics that are solely our own. Finally, we take these refined characteristics and find that others have begun to emulate what we have taken as our own. This can easily be applied to our teaching and our classroom. We, in our own learning, emulate those that teach us. As time passes and we find our own way, we begin to refine our teaching to best suit ourselves and not necessarily following what we were taught to the letter. We then find our students emulating aspects of what we do and in turn later being emulated by others. However, this emulation is both a positive and negative aspect of life due to the fact that if we have a poor role model then we have the potential to become a poor role model as well.