Compassionate Teacher: Why compassion should be at the heart of our schools

Ask any teacher why they went into teaching, and they''ll invariably refer to students or their subject. Yet, modern educators are faced with a dilemma: the industry judges us primarily on outcomes, offering the justification that grades improve life chances. Grades improve life chances as much as money buys happiness: it''s no more than a prop or a poor substitute. Unless the profession starts to...