Monday, September 3, 2012

Daily Kos: Lessons from a master educator

Daily Kos: Lessons from a master educator:


Lessons from a master educator

the original version of this was posted in November 2010.  I have cleaned up some typos and modified the original so that it is not time sensitive.  I think the content is just as relevant now as it was almost two years ago
Teachers make an easy target, for they are such a common species and so powerless to strike back.  We blame teachers for being unable to cure social ills that no one knows how to treat; we insist that they instantly adopt whatever "solution" has most recently been concocted by our national panacea machine; and in the process, we demoralize, even paralyze, the very teachers who help us find our way.
I  finally had the opportunity to meet the author of those words the day after the original of this was posted in