"I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when……" — Parker J. Palmer
"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." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence."
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78 Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the…
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has…
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of…
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self…
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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