I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life. — 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
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. — 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
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different… — 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
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
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
The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children… — 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
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
