" It really helped me, " she says, " and then when people comment about how it's helping them, it really makes me happy, because women were… always put down, always on the back burner."
And this could sort of be put on the back burner, when students are really stressed out about making sure they get all of the points in task achievement and coherence and cohesion.
Because I do, and in my book, that teacher was almost as cool as the one who let us play with magnesium and bunsen burners unsupervised – for science, of course.