Paul Graham writes this blunt and wide-ranging article on how and why adults lie to children. This is well worth reading. Even if you are not teaching children, deep teaching inevitably touches on adult-child dynamics.
Particularly relevant is the section “School” in which he talks about patterns of dishonesty in schools. He says, “Probably the biggest [...]
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In Teaching by Speaking Honestly I wrote about the challenges of speaking honestly as separate from offering facts. Communicating honestly and genuinely is essential for gathering and maintaining student attention. If the students trust you, they will follow you. It was my first time presenting to this class and the children wanted to know more about me than my subject. My answers to these personal questions were, at one level, irrelevant, but how I handled these questions — how honest I seemed to them — had everything to do with how they listened [...] I spoke to a teacher who told me his life was changing and he was not sure he could continue teaching. |
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