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This report of the success of the Inspirational Speaker programme was most thorough. "Outstandings" all around on the eval form.
"Wilburforce Arbuthnot"--Ha!
Fabulous opening--all those busybodies (even if they Meant Well) would have infuriated me. Kudos to Minerva and Irma for remaining... professional.
Professor McGonagall’s assignments taught the students both Transfiguration and proper research and library skills – in a way that fitted their age and level of schooling. Ah, to have a Prof. McGonagall to hand in our district!
The magnificence of Dumbledore in Adminstrator mode at the governors' meeting!
...since nothing brought to life the memory of the one grandmother Horace had actually known more vividly than a mention of the word harpy. Family can be such a trial.
“Oh, we won’t be as boringly traditional as that,” Arbuthnot had enthused. “We will use inventive means of self-exploration that help the student to actively learn, rather than to dumbly absorb.” Of course Arbuthnot is a constructivist.
As Minerva gave the final instructions for lunch and break times to the house-elves, she couldn’t help thinking that an excellent way to spend the day would be to bang this young man in an old-fashioned desk, explain all about the Split Infinitive with the help of a blackboard, and make him spend several hours on writing exercises that would teach him once and for all to avoid it. Works for me.
Noticing the marked lack of enthusiasm and attributing it to a resistance to change... As these consultants invariably do.
They all knew that, on days like this, survival of the fittest starts with sticking to ‘yes, Minerva, you are quite right’. See, now that's the result of solid pedagogical practice.
Irma, who had always been firmly of the opinion that outdoors was an area one had to cross in order to reach various indoorsy activities... I'm with Irma.
“A friend,” explained Irma, “is someone who’ll Obliviate the witnesses.” I think I'm in love with her myself.
What mattered were the evaluation forms. Priorities firmly in order.