ABSTRACT
Adverts for teaching jobs used, quite often, to specify an ‘experienced teacher’. That’s not so common now, as requirements become much more specific. The phrase is still alive and well, though, in professional conversation, carrying with it a note of approval as if ‘experienced’ is synonymous with ‘good’, which it plainly is not. There’s experience and then there’s experience, and that’s something I’ve tried to unpick here.
