In the Classroom When students learn math by counting musical beats, or study history by painting murals, they can largely thank Howard Gardner for making the arts a respectable classroom teaching tool.
In 1881, Sessions was the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a degree in science, and after a short stint in the respectable profession of teaching, she followed her heart into horticulture.
(Note to the decent, respectable translator: I teach a college class on translation but I accept your critique that I am long on theory and short on practice).
Paul says that a leader must be "temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money".
There is nothing respectable about the idea of "teaching the controversy," as intelligent-design advocates describe it.
"It's always been an expectation that teaching is a respectable profession and you should be entitled to have somewhere to live," Moynihan said in an interview with the Guardian.
Thanks to humble black folks, loafers and gamblers included, he taught even the respectable Horatio Algers how to swing.
Consider the catalog of teaching films, from the respectable ("Stand and Deliver," "To Sir, With Love") to the risible ("Dangerous Minds," "Mr. Holland's Opus"), and you find they all share an ambition: to beatify teachers.
Even in the few countries in which pay is respectable--for example, Germany and Denmark--the teaching profession itself is not respected.
I rattle off my résumé of respectable community board and committee positions, and teaching I do on the side.
