A Great Excerpt from Flawless Consulting
“We (the teachers) are not just selling ideas, like selling a product. We are also promoting awareness of self. Awareness of what it means to be part of a community, a citizen. Students need to struggle with their own definition of success in this class. If we do not put the question of success on the table, then we will get stuck with the default position of student as consumer if they do well, identified patient if they do not! Too often we talk of students as someone to cure, fix, heal or filled with information! … We need to be conscious of what we want to conserve in our way of being in the classroom. There is one question we as teachers need to ask ourselves, and that is, ‘what am I conserving in my manner of teaching? In my manner of being with the student, what am I living? Am I conserving trust, intimacy and cooperation? Or am I conserving fear, isolation and competition?'” Ward Mailliard from Flawless Consulting by Peter Block
