Cate Blanchett Recalls Teaching Her Kids During Lockdown
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Cate Blanchett Says Her Daughter Made Her Dress Up As Her Teacher While Homeschooling During Quarantine
"I was a dead duck. There was no respect there."
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Cate Blanchett may have played teacher to her four children during lockdown, but she ended up learning something herself — teaching is no easy task!
Darren Gerrish / WireImage / Getty Images The actor explained that while things got off to an "amazing" start, her 7-year-old daughter, Edith, quickly realized her mom wasn't a professional.
Ernesto S. Ruscio / Getty Images "I was amazing for two weeks... My older kids were fine; they would self-direct. But I had to sort of do my 7-year-old, and I realized that I couldn't even teach her grade 1 math," Cate said on The Project.
Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images She continued, "She sniffed that out after 14 days. I was a dead duck. There was no respect there."
Elisabetta A. Villa / WireImage / Getty Images In order to keep the lessons going for her daughter, she had to change her voice and her appearance to be more like her usual teacher.
Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images "I had to dress up as her teacher. I had to put on her teacher's voice. She wouldn't start the classes until we had an array of stuffed animals, all of which had the names of all the people in her class," Cate explained.
Andreas Rentz / Getty Images for ZFF Cate added, "It felt like some weird kind of cross between The Muppets and MasterClass. It was quite traumatic actually."
Gary Gershoff / Getty Images Overall, the experience reaffirmed Cate's respect for teachers, explaining that they should be fairly compensated like they are in Finland.
Stefania D'alessandro / WireImage / Getty Images "In Finland, which has the highest and most respected level of education anywhere, teachers are paid the same as doctors and lawyers. And they should be because the level of skill to engage a bunch of, often disinterested, students for 8 to 12 hours a day is one of the most profound, respected skills of any profession anywhere," Cate concluded.
Ernesto S. Ruscio / Getty Images for Campari Hear all that Cate had to say below.
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