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The Atlantic featured\u00a0a really good piece of reflection<\/a> on the lost art of teaching by the great magician Teller, half of Penn and Teller.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn\u2019t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there\u2019s all sorts of ways to go at it, but no matter what, you are a symbol of the subject in the students\u2019 minds.”
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This fits nicely with my oft-repeated statement, “Schools have an obligation to introduce children to things they don’t yet know they love.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Americans have a nutty notion that experts are bad teachers. My experience is quite to the contrary. You become an expert by obsessively focusing on often tiny, yet continuous growth. That precision and focus is easy converted into an ability to explain a\u00a0learning process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Read\u00a0Teaching: Just Like Performing Magic<\/a><\/div>\n
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With Teller and the Criss Angel of Chicago, David Jakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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