What does a teacher make? Taylor Mali explains:
What do teachers make?
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:August 2, 2011
- Post category:Education
- Post comments:3 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
I’ve always liked this rant. But usually watch “Labeling Keys” to cool down afterward.
Taylor Mali is awesome. When I was an undergrad, I was inspired by his poem, so I sent him an e-mail to let him know, and he personally e-mailed me back.
Matt Damon, on teachers (from The Nation):
“I don’t know where I would be today if my teachers’ job security was based on how I performed on some standardized test,” Damon said. “If their very survival as teachers was based [not] on whether I actually fell in love with the process of learning, but rather if I could fill in the right bubble on a test. If they had to spend most of their time desperately drilling us and less time encouraging creativity and original ideas; less time knowing who we were, seeing our strengths, and helping us realize our talents. I honestly don’t know where I’d be today if that was the type of education I had. I sure as hell wouldn’t be here. I do know that.”
http://www.thenation.com/blog/162558/matt-damon-arne-duncan-and-divisive-teacher-quality-debate