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Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

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Something Understood: The Teacher's Art

Embracing the Classical

15/04/2018

The Teacher's Art

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, The Teacher's Art

Mark Tully discusses the art of teaching and asks if great teachers are born or made.

If teaching is an art, can it be learned or is it an innate skill? Mark Tully discusses the qualities of a good teacher with a former Unesco director of education, Kabir Shaikh.

Mark Tully explores the very best of teachers - and the very worst - through fiction, philosophy and memoirs, considering the essential attributes of a great teacher and the formative influence teachers can have throughout our lives. 

He talks to former teacher Kabir Shaikh, who, as Director of Education for UNRWA/UNESCO, has also been responsible for providing education for half a million Palestinian refugee children in the Middle East. 

There are readings from the works of Charles Dickens, Chalotte Bronte and poet Carl Dennis, and music is provided by Carl Orff, Aaron Copland and Japanese Taiko drummer Joji Hirota.

The readers are Cyril Nri, Emma Pallant and Francis Cadder.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

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