RULE TO BREAK

“Teacher knows best”

When I left school at 16, my head teacher told me I’d never amount to anything. Well, I haven’t saved the world, or become Prime Minister, but I feel I’ve done OK.

The trouble with most teachers is that they know very little about anything but teaching. Many of them are married to people in similar professions. They work in institutions all their lives. Theirs is a narrow world.

They do an invaluable job, mind you. The best teachers can be a positive influence on hundreds of kids, and can inspire them to lifelong achievement. I’m not dissing them – as teachers. But I know very few teachers who have any idea what is entailed in, say, being an airline pilot, or working for an international development charity, ...

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