Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“To those who say that we need weights and measures in order to enforce accountability in education, my response is, yes, of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The God I know is the source of reality, rather than morality; the source of 'what is' rather than the source of 'what ought… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
“Formation may be the best name for what happens in a circle of trust, because the word refers, historically, to soul work done in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
“Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
