Tuesday, April 14, 2020

If I Only Had a Brain


“Being a teacher is waging a war on ignorance. You have to want to put in all those hours every day to grade, to plan an interesting lesson to have 100 kids ask a million questions. But, in the end, if you have kids leaving school, being critical, asking questions, reading the newspaper — then you’ve won.

“Half of my class is going to be voting in November. I want people who are voting for the first time to be thinking when they’re pulling that lever. Doesn’t everybody?” 

—Joe Kyle, social studies teacher, Parsippany (NJ) High School, criticized for having his students debate U.S. Iraq policy, 2006.



Editorial Comment: Thinkin’? What’s that got to do with politics?

  


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