“It is entirely possible for a history teacher to enjoy his students, grade them highly on tests he thinks sufficiently challenging, vary his content and delivery a bit from one year to the next, and still be no good at his job. Or for a literature teacher to cover all the books in the curriculum, enjoy lively conversation with the students several times a week, grade them highly on tests he thinks sufficiently challenging, and yet be a failure as a classical educator. It’s pleasant to think that a few in-service lectures every year about leisure and contemplation will transform mediocre teachers, but that is simply not how human beings change. What mediocre teachers need is for someone who knows what they’re doing to observe them for several days, take notes, and then tell them, “You’re doing this all wrong,” explain why, and then they need to spend several days watching someone do it properly.”
-from How To Fix Your Faculty Development Program from the upcoming Gibbs Classical Online Summer Conference (July 8-9)
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 