If there’s one piece of wisdom I can share from my 16 years of education so far (holy crap!), it’s that its not the subject, but the teacher that makes all the difference. A crap teacher can make a good subject dull and uninteresting, while a good teach can make a dry and boring subject quite bareable. Unfortunately our society doesn’t seem to value the teaching proffession, with the result that great teachers seem to be few and far between. Occassionally you get a teacher that not not only makes a subject great, but inspires you to think, challenge your ideas and engage in the material, even outside of the classroom (for instance, on a blog).
Peter Wagstaff is one of those teachers, and we’d (Julian Cole, Josh Strawczynski, Zac Martin, Simon Oboler and myself), like to show our appreciation to him today, on Peter Wagstaff Day!
