Whilst teaching at Taunton’s College I would often use the wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes to explain concepts and contemporary issues. What is Sport? What is Play? Deviance (cheating, misuse drugs, gamesmanship) Why are rules necessary? Plus, I would use the cartoon strips to engage students, as starters, plenaries and to set homework (as it was once called) guidelines. These two characters became very popular with students and certainly brightened up the lessons and worksheets.
There image my delight when I read that a software engineer had created a fantastic search engine for the classic comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Sadly we were also warned to ‘Head over there fast, because it may not be be around long.’
Thinking about leadership, here’s one Calvin lesson. You can not command that colleagues follow you.
