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the only person who repeats themselves on purpose and still gets blamed for your forgetting

means A person whose job is to help others learn a subject, skill, or way of thinking.

from From Old English 'tǣcan,' to show or point out — the same root that gives us 'token,' something shown. So a teacher was first literally one who points: here, look, this way. The '-er' ending simply marks the doer, as in baker or writer. The shift from 'pointing out' to 'instructing' was already underway in early English, the finger becoming the lesson.

ancient gig
Confucius was teaching 2,500 years ago
odd honor
five countries celebrate them with a national day off
voice strain
teachers report twice the vocal damage of other jobs
ripple effect
every profession was trained by one
finland flex
there teaching is harder to enter than law
for instance

jaime escalante — real math teacher at garfield high school in los angeles who taught calculus to poor students in 1988

rory weasley — harry potter character who became hogwarts transfiguration professor after the series

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