January 2011
4 posts
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac
I'm about to become a teacher. How can I be a good...
The best teachers I remember from school had three things in common:
(1) They had high standards. Like three year olds testing their parents, students will test teachers to see if they can get away with low-quality work or bad behavior. They won’t respect the teachers who don’t call them on it.
(2) They liked us. Like dogs, kids can tell very accurately whether or not someone...