The likes of Bleak House, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations or Persuasion would certainly be more of a challenge, and I don't think children would find them tedious were teachers to succeed in actually getting students to read them.
"I love the Sphero and have one in my classroom," Vicki Davis, a technology instructor from Georgia, wrote last year on her blog, Cool Cat Teacher, adding, "Happy Hour of Code week!" Coding can be tedious for novices, and teachers like Davis see robotic toys as a way around this hurdle.
The task is less tedious for non-language-based teachers, because in order to measure students' learning in content areas other than language, they could easily utilize multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in or matching type of tests.
In order to make our money, time, and effort do more for the betterment of life, we cannot separate the glamorous from the tedious; the training from the teacher; the spreadsheet from the well.
"It can be tedious, but they need it," said Sarah Greenberger, a teacher, who sees the scripted lessons as a relief from teaching science, since it demands only enthusiasm and classroom management, not ingenuity and preparation.
Even with a teacher, it was hard work, made more tedious by the fact that transcriptions and translations of many of the manuscripts were readily available.
Know that an excellent teacher can make even the most mundane subject truly fascinating, and that a poor teacher can make even your favorite subject tedious and boring.
Safe, perhaps (though not from paedophile priests and Scoutmasters and teachers, all of whom were protected by the institutions that employed them), but static, tedious and bogged down in Victorian morality, petty prejudice and small-mindedness.
In their study of what makes a portfolio and its effect determining in teacher education classes, they assert that portfolio assessment should be an integral part of the education environment and be valued by supervisors and teachers, and they should be given feedback; otherwise, they will consider that portfolios are tedious, time-consuming, and ineffective.
