Parker Palmer - Teacher Quotes

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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 students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.

Parker Palmer
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

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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 and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.

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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

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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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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

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Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

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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 to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

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