Memoirs of an Old Teacher

Students feel that they study too much, teachers feel that they work too many hours, and politicians think that education costs too much money. Variation, flexibility, public management, entrepreneurship, sustainability, computational thinking, digitally aware, AI-friendly, common core, leadership, resilience, self-efficacy, inclusiveness, lift-the-gifted… The latest trend is the smell association theory—the retrieving of knowledge by smelling the same aroma that was present when the knowledge was first learned.