Great Teaching

Can you teach with feeling when you don’t care? That permeates the teaching profession. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently because caring is getting to be a rare quality. Basically, it seems to me that fewer and fewer people care about doing a great job. Everywhere you look there is laziness and sloppiness. There is a lack of motivation and a lack of shame about taking other people’s money as charity. 

Having the desire to do great work takes a special kind of person.  The total commitment to produce the best product takes an overwhelming amount of energy. Giving your all takes hard work, and hard work is totally unfashionable. 

Teachers are no different. All they do feels like being surrounded by mediocrity. I utterly need to state that the opposite is true of Judy. In fact, she does too much and works too hard. I’m aware that people think that she makes knowledge too fun to be taken too seriously. But that is not the case at all. I learn every time I step through the doors of M2H, and that is the sign of great teaching.​

Jason listening to a lecture by Professor David Chinitz of Loyola University on the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns