Up to the Challenge Reflecting on the courage, creativity, and empathy of Brimmer’s exceptional faculty By Nicky DeCesare, Associate Director of Marketing & Communications
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first encountered the preposterous phrase, “Those who can’t do, teach” in kindergarten. Once a week, I would wait patiently in my piano teacher’s living room for my lesson, listening as my older sister clumsily hunt-and-pecked her way across the keys in the next room. I’d often use the Humanities Co-Chair Dr. Don Reese teaches his 10th graders.
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time to explore the room’s side tables and bookshelves, which were cluttered with education-inspired memorabilia from my teacher’s earlier days in the classroom. As I poked my way around the room, I came across a trinket spouting the quote. Confused, I asked my mother to explain it
when she picked us up. She paused before responding carefully, “I think that some people like to make jokes about teaching being an easy job.” “Oh. That isn’t very funny,” I grumbled, disappointed that the quip wasn’t any wittier
