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Zierer (2023) The Socratic Oath for Teachers

What makes a good teacher?

  • In 1991, Hartmut von Hentig…
  • What characterises teacher professionalism?

Let him that would move the world first move himself Socrates

  • “to understand and shape the classroom and the school as a welcoming place,”
  • “to be loyal, but not blindly so, to official requirements”
  • “to implement everything that is in the best interests of the child and to reject everything that is contrary to the best interests of the child”
  • “publicly accuse and reject”
  • “to use my pedagogical freedom to place current issues at the centre of the school day,”

We spend about 15,000 hours of our lives in school and are taught by an average of 50 teachers

  • Macron’s Paty speech example 🤦🏻‍♂️
  • “He wasn’t an enemy of the religion they exploit: he had read the Koran; he respected his students whatever their beliefs and was interested in Muslim civilisation. No, on the contrary, that’s precisely why Samuel Paty was killed”
  • “education does not mean what has been made of me but what I have made of my life”