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On Sunday 10 February 2008 23:00, james kilty wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:48 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Do you need to be a teacher to teach something, if your knowledge is > > good enough and you can communicate that knowledge you can teach a > > subject, > > Plus the right attitude to students and learning (acceptance, empathy, > sensitivity, encouragement, respect ...) Alas not all teachers have > enough of all these. My teachers had none of these qualities. My school did, however, get 25% of its sixth form into oxbridge and the year after I left (noticeably) was top for non-public schools A and O'level results. People are different. A friendly hands on approach (to teaching or parenting) will benefit some and badly fail others. A 'we take no-sh*t' approach from teachers seems to give far better results academically with a lower exclusion rate and no-one should ever leave social development to a school other than osmotically. In both cases does help if teachers actually know their subject and judging from fresh graduates I've worked with this doesn't seem to be the case with university any more. You know any organisation is in trouble when you say 'the results aren't good enough' and the response is 'you cant say that your offending people'. Tom te tom te tom > > -- > james kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html