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"The lesson is plain.
"Children want to know how.
"Teaching
helps to learn how when able people teach.
"But they must be allowed to do it,
with guidance and encouragement as needed, and with the least amount of
dictation from outside.
"Teaching is a demanding, often back-breaking job; it
should not be done with the energy left over after meetings and pointless
paperwork have drained hope and faith in the enterprise.
"Accountability, the
latest cure in vogue, is to be looked for only in results.
"Good teaching is
usually well-known to all concerned without questionnaires or approved lesson
plans.
"The number of good teachers who are now shackled by bureaucratic
obligations to superiors who know little or nothing about the classroom cannot
even be guessed at.
"They deserve from an Education President an Emancipation
Proclamation."
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