Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Spectacularly Unlimited

"Teaching as the direct delivery of some preplanned curriculum, teaching as the orderly and scripted conveyance of information, teaching as clerking, is simply a myth.

Teaching is much larger and much more alive than that; it contains more pain and conflict, more joy and intelligence, more uncertainty and ambiguity. It requires more judgment and energy and intensity than, on some days, seems humanly possible. 

Teaching is spectacularly unlimited."
(Ayers, W. (2001). To teach: The journey of a teacher. New York: Teachers College Press.)

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