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Attempts to quantify teaching in scientific terms, to make it circle around datapoints, effect-sizes and graphs that fly about this way and that, are guaranteed to kill the thing as surely as a stake to an undead heart. Much of what makes a good teacher is innate. All our vanities about how to improve teaching forget that, at day’s end, if the teacher hath not love, she hath nothing
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A preferred season for serious reading exists.
Every morning for forty years I taught an academic Bible course in a public high school.
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review Books Classics) by Fermor, Patrick Leigh at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 159017187X - ISBN 13: 9781590171875 - New York Review of Books - 2006 - Softcover