Knowledge is Power

Teachers and leaders are people that are chosen to lead people into the future. Without them, in some aspect, people would be lost and un-knowledgeable in certain fields of life. In order for people to receive teachers and leaders information, teachers and leaders must effectively create channels easy for anyone to access. Social media has become a huge resource in this day in age. More and more it is becoming easily accessed to not only young adults but teens and even children. Teachers should each create a blog, a website or even have a twitter of there own where they post not only their educated thoughts and opinions on certain subjects, but where they can also post things such as; homework, assigned readings, and scholarly articles pertaining to their subject that students can look to.
When sharing your thoughts on your new blog and twitter, you as a teacher, must censor what you post. Teachers have close to 100 students sometimes. That is 100 inquiring minds looking to you for advice and knowledge. On your social media sites there should be cursing, no inappropriate pictures of you or degrading posts that "bad mouth" any other teacher or student. There should be no promotion of drugs or alcohol and i believe that religious opinion should be kept to a minimal. These are sites that are being created are used purely for education and helping other people while putting your opinion into it.
Students need to know they can look up to you and use you, their teacher, as a resource. In order to do so the teacher must teacher his/her students that everyone fails. There is not one person in this world, who at some point or another, has not failed. "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character," quoted from Albert Einstein. Though not everyone is scientists, it still holds true. It is not about your failure, it is about your character. Can you keep going? Will you give it everything you have? And when you have fallen 7 times will you get up and try for the 8th? It needs to be taught that failure is OKAY. Learn from it and grow because there is so much more to a person then what they cannot do. If someone is not good at one thing they might be really good at another. 
There is a reason that we still go to school. Why we still have classrooms and teachers. Sharing things can be just as effective face to face then it can be online. Yes, online is easier because it targets a higher amount of people all at once and at a faster time. But face to face allows for quicker responses when something is not understood. Some people, like myself, learn better from human interaction. When i am able to sit down with a person and see things play out i learn better. I am a very hands on person with learning.But when sharing it is important to share everything. In order for people to learn and grow they need to know all that they can in that subject. I'm not saying teachers should give their whole life story to their students or sit down and give every aspect of their life, but i am saying that, for example, if a history teacher is teaching his/her class about the American Revolution that he/she should teacher both sides of the story not just ours. Give students every bit of knowledge they deserve. 
Likewise for the media and social networks. News channels, scholarly websites ect. have a job to inform the people and make them more knowledgeable about certain things. Sometimes more then thousands of people relay on these media sites for information. They must give all the truth and without error. Like teachers they are leaders and people look to them to help them form opinions and be educated about the world around them. It is not right to mislead people into believing things that, simply, are not true. We must begin to create a society that encourages the practice of transparency. We allow media to have access to more information, all the cards must be laid out on the table. Start with many small businesses and then move up. This will ensure trust and allow for open communication among everyone. One people start to see the truth then it many issues will self-correct themselves. If one is forced to "air their dirty laundry," then they might clean up their acts and ensure that what the truth is, is something that they want everyone to know about.