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Teacher Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
- In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
- Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
- I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech."…
- In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood…
- The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our…
- We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about…
- Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students…
- In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but…
- ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that…
- Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
- If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner…
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- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
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