I just completed a teaching inventory quiz. According to the results my lowest score was in Social Reform. Those who know me may be surprised as was my roommate Margo. Most people who know me imagine me to be a lat 60's radical attacking the barricades of the status quo. And back then they would have been right.
It is not that I have given up or fallen into despair. It is more that I have come to know that change happens one person at a time. I learned that lesson from a Buddhist nun who said, "I cannot change the world. But when I change myself I have changed the world." So my teaching is about the individual. As much as I can I try to speak to each student - to touch them within their own lives not to try to pull them into mine.
Friday, October 10, 2008
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