Education Forensics: English Class Room 108
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcast
Don't Be Passionate. Don't Change the World.
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Don't Be Passionate. Don't Change the World.

Useless and destructive sayings are all over the place.
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“Do what you love”.

This is the worst advice you could give to a young person.

“You can change the world”. No you can’t. Perhaps we should work on grammar and knowing at what temperature water freezes first.

Our young people need good, solid, valuable instruction. They don’t need useless, pointless, and misguided (even dangerous) sayings to cloud their minds.

Here are some of the latest ‘passionate’ sayings around the building. The Black History Month are putting the cart before the horse, as many of the figures are unknown. Additionally, they feed into the eternal victimology narrative that warps young people’s futures. Teach first, and teach well. Then, maybe, inundate young people with this kind of rhetoric:

Really? Says who? In what way?

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Education Forensics: English Class Room 108
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcast
My teaching career began in September 1996. I have a lot to say - some if it is wonderful and some of it isn't. Practically everything you've heard about the school business is wrong. At this stage, I've basically seen it all.