ABSTRACT
The argument has laid a good deal of emphasis on the emotional dimension of teachers’ work. This is something that has consequences for their conceptions of themselves and for the way they function as people. Another person who has a strong sense of the relationship between teaching and personal style is the analytic Faye Taylor. She puts it like this: I think it is much easier to teach for a person who likes ordering people around. One understandable response is to blunt one’s capacity to care. Settled teachers often speak of their jobs, their schools, and their pupils in a sceptical, even cynical, way that can be quite startling when encountered for the first time. Teachers who have risen in their careers, especially men, often develop a style of bluff, humorous ruthlessness that puts the problems of teaching in the same pocket as the problems of management.
