Quotable: On Teaching and Letting Go of Control

“I myself became a decent teacher only when I started to relinquish some control over the classroom—stopped worrying so much about “getting my points across” and recognized that those moments of disorder that would sometimes occur, those spontaneous outbreaks of intelligence, were the most interesting parts of the class, for both my students and myself. We were going somewhere new, and we were going there together.”

– from the very interesting article on the role of college “Spirit Guides” by William Deresiewicz in Slate

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