Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Professional ignorance

Being a knowledge nerd, I always need to know the reason behind something, so am forever asking “why?” in real life anyway, but as a teacher, I do it even more, to get the students to talk.

During my one-to-one lessons with banker Alex, he’d check each time, “Do you really not know, or are you just trying to make me say it in Chinese?”

When I told current student Rosie (a retired teacher herself) about this, she came up with the term “professional ignorance”.  Haha, brilliant.

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