Recent studies on school management and results have pointed to the relevance of the so-called 'teacher effect' as a factor linked to the performance of pupils. The premise developed in this article is that such studies end up paradoxically demonstrating the relevance of the psychoanalytic reflection, which stresses the status of the teacher's speech within a filial teaching tradition as a necessary condition in school education.
Teacher's Speech; Psychoanalysis and Education; Freud and Education; Desire and Education; School Assessment