Attempts to quantify teaching in scientific terms, to make it circle around datapoints, effect-sizes and graphs that fly about this way and that, are guaranteed to kill the thing as surely as a stake to an undead heart. Much of what makes a good teacher is innate. All our vanities about how to improve teaching forget that, at day’s end, if the teacher hath not love, she hath nothing
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