[BITList] Pupils distracted by gadgets, say teachers - Telegraph

[HUGH]

Mike,

Too true.  I note the word "ruler", and I hear Mr Wallace, the last teacher I had in Chapelton Primary School, turning in his grave.  "It's a rule !" he would shout. "A ruler is a different matter entirely. A twelve inch ruler is a very small king."  We learned fast, not through fear of him (he was a benign soul), but because he was a superb teacher in the fashion of the ladies we'd had in the lower classes.  Also, we learned fast because there were no distractions - no gadgets, no acres of pretty pictures on the walls, no trendy bullshit from trendy dickheads.

Hugh.
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