What Do You Know?

Facts alone are relatively safe and objective. Preferences typically follow cultural expectations and exposure. But what someone sees is a reflection of what they think and feel. [...]

Ending a Teaching

A teacher has great power to demonstrate good endings, to give the student a way to transition from one path to another, one level to another, one teacher to another – or to no teacher. [...]

What Teachers Make

Poetry is at times the best bridge between reason and understanding. Here is a piece about teaching which I found worth the three mintues to watch. Teacher-poet Taylor Mali is asked, at a dinner party, “You’re a teacher, Taylor. Be honest: what do you make?”

Here is his answer: What Teachers Make