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

What Do You Get from Teaching?

The better we understand why we teach, the more profoundly we can do so.

Few of us teach for a single reason or for the same reasons from day to day or even minute to minute. We are mix of motivations, one moment gladdened by a struggling student’s understanding and the next musing on [...]