We Teach Who We Are

     All of us teach - patients, colleagues, family and friends. Each of us teaches constantly, by how we say every word, and how we perform each action.

     "A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own."     Maxine Greene

     "And this freedom, this ripeness of self, is the indispensable element in all true teaching, simply because it speaks so compellingly to those who hunger to be free - that is presumably all."     William Arrowsmith

     "Of the many attributes associated with transformative teaching, the most crucial ones seem to concern the teacher as a person. For it is essential to success within that tradition that teachers who are trying to bring about transformative changes personify the very qualities they seek to engender in their students. To the best of their abilities, they must be living exemplars of certain virtues or values or attitudes."     Philip Jackson

       Higgins C. Human conditions for teaching: The place of pedagogy in Arendt's Vita Activa. Teachers College Record 2010; 112(2): 407-45.

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