{"id":137,"date":"2009-02-17T20:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:22","slug":"the-best-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/the-best-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Teachers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the TED talks.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 When I was working at the school board, I wasted many a lunch hour going through the TED video library.<\/p>\n<p>This guy, Barry Schwartz, makes a plea for common sense over bureaucratic rigidity in modern society.\u00a0 He also sums up the qualities of every single teacher that I&#8217;ve ever had, who I considered &#8220;amazing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty inspiring stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">See Barry Schwartz&#8217;s talk here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Google&#8217;s slogan?\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221;?<\/em> Whoever I end up working for, I hope I go home every day feeling like I&#8217;ve really done a good thing, as opposed to feeling like I just made a few bucks from somebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the TED talks.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 When I was working at the school board, I wasted many a lunch hour going through the TED video library. This guy, Barry Schwartz, makes a plea for common sense over bureaucratic rigidity in modern society.\u00a0 He also sums up the qualities of every single teacher that I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,60,59,61],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-education","tag-morality","tag-ted","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-2d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}