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Stradivarius violins in schools won't help if teachers are not musicians. The whole notion of professional "teachers" instead of professionals is broken. My bes
by rusabd 11y ago
Stradivarius violins in schools won't help if teachers are not musicians. The whole notion of professional "teachers" instead of professionals is broken. My best teachers were practicing scientists, programmers and crafstmen
- ZenoArrow 11y agoThere's an element of truth to that, but I'd argue an effective teacher in a classroom environment also needs to know how to communicate to a group of kids. I've had teachers who clearly had an interest in a subject but weren't able to get it across (for reasons that were a little hard to judge). Arguably that's the sort of thing that teacher training should give teachers a chance to refine, though I don't know if that's the sort of skill that teacher training focuses on at the moment.