Mr Smith or Gary? Why some teachers ask students to call them by their first name
- Written by Nicole Brownlie, Lecturer in Education, University of Southern Queensland
Johnny Greig/ Getty Images When you went to school, did you call your teacher Mrs, Ms or Mr, followed by their surname? Perhaps you even called them Sir or Miss.
The tradition of addressing teachers in a formal manner goes back centuries. For many of us, calling a teacher by their first name would have been unthinkable.
But that’s not...
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