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The guts of teaching are how we feel about our students. If we can teach for their sakes, as well as for the sake of our own intellectual journey, then our profession can become what it should be: generous, life-enhancing, perenially satisfying.
Unfortunately, we know that good will towards students and earnest attention to teaching are not ubiquitous. We all know teachers who don't value students, who in some sense don't even see their students. We don't know how many there are--we hope they are few--but we...
Most, I believe, reject the snappy comeback, defensiveness, haughtiness, and nasty laughter, from the outset of our teaching careers. I imagine that many people go into the profession, which they know it or not, because someone filled the classroom for them with affectionate attention. When the look I give a...
As we all know, starting around 1970, the academic establishment has suffered a crisis of confidence. When the growth stopped, many other things went wrong. We lost some of our best and most dedicated teachers--there wasn't room for them. The culture stopped supporting education: it lost the trusting...
"It's a sharper recognition of the changing profession and not just the student audiences, and I think it's positive," he added.