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Why levity is the soul of teaching
How many of you still remember that teacher of your college days who had more to offer than just nondescript, soporific lectures – that teacher who held your attention throughout class with humour and levity?
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I totally agree!
Thanks! I’m glad you agree with me.
I heartily agree. A little levity lightens the load. Humour as always been a part of my teaching because after reflection on my own education, on it became apparent that the most enjoyable classes were those where there had been an occasional joke and a refusal to be weighed down by unnecessary seriousness. Ideas are serious but they don’t have to be delivered in an atmosphere of unrelieved gloom to make us realise that.
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