Malcolm Gauld
Put great teaching up against bad parenting and bad parenting wins.
Spend any time at Hyde, and you’re bound to hear slogans like these:
“School is for kids… Hyde is for families.”
“Parents are the primary teachers and home is the primary classroom.”
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”… and neither do the nuts. (The added italics are mine.)
Hyde may be a pioneer in bringing parents into the mix of the educational process — we’ve been at it more than a half-century — but we certainly do not have a monopoly on the idea. Here are five compelling quotes from other perspectives that have inspired me personally as both a parent and a teacher:
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.” – Jackie Kennedy
“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglas
“Children have never been very good at listening to their parents, but they never fail to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” – Martin Mull
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
Yup.
Onward, Malcolm Gauld
