Is it the educational system that grinds the enthusiasm out of our teachers? Perhaps teachers now expect compliance, and therefore can’t cope if they see their students passionate about their learning? I once watched a teacher eject a student for being too excited about the task in hand. When I asked why he’d done so, he said that ‘If I allow one to get excited, they’ll all think it’s OK, and then it would be chaos!’ Gosh, a classroom full of excited learners – we can’t have that, can we?
