This is a still from the film If....(1968) Macolm Mc Dowell and Christine Noonan
Good teachers never terrorise their students. To terroise is to attack and this results in the rejection of what the teacher has to offer. The effect is learning failure. When a teacher terrorises he has already stopped caring for his student and when this happens the student stops listening to him. The expression "What you are and do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying." was created to describe this situation. The film If... is a very good illustration of this principle and it is one of my favourites.
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