From Times Higher Education [via idiolect]
“If we don’t put ourselves under pressure, nothing interesting or exciting is going to happen. How could it? In fact, what we’ve done is spent three hours the previous night making sure that it doesn’t happen.
“Then we have the gall to offer these hours of preparation as morally sound. Self-protection is being offered to the world as a moral value. That preparation has been done to protect the teacher from the students. Teachers spend hours and hours preparing because they are terrified of bring caught out.”
Made me think. One of the best teachers I’ve ever had [one Mr Claughton] was never afraid to praise a question and then think about it with the class, making no bones about the fact he might not have an answer. It made you a) feel like you were learning with him, and b) value what he said more.