Notes on a Scandal - The Challenges of Teaching Beyond the Classroom
Sheba Hart:
When you started teaching, didn't you want to give them a real education to help overcome... the poverty of their backgrounds?
Barbara Covett:
Oh yes, of course. But one soon learns that teaching is crowd control. We're a branch of the social services.
Sue Hodge:
Console yourself with the gems. That's when it's satisfying. Then you can make a real difference.
Barbara Covett:
The rest is just cattle-prod and pray.
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