Secret teacher: Are the 'clever' people turning into mean girls?

"I’m in the business of teaching and learning but this meanness, this conversion of knowledge into nastiness has nothing to do with education or true intelligence."
Secret teacher: Are the 'clever' people turning into mean girls?

Mean Girls /Still of Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls

Fri, 19 Mar, 2021 - 06:00

I have two rules for my own children and my students.

1.Be kind.

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