ABSTRACT
We all know about teaching. Individually, we are subjected to it compulsorily for at least eleven years, experiencing it and evaluating it day after day. We sit in classrooms thinking, ‘This is good’, or ‘Blimey, I could do better than this myself.’ Collectively, we are used to turning to schools to solve society’s problems and even sometimes to blaming them for its ills. We have opinions and information about teaching that far exceed our relationship with any other profession. Teaching is the most visible of all occupations. It is also the most misunderstood.
