The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“The heart cannot be taught in a classroom intellectually, to students mechanically taking notes…. Good, wise hearts are obtained through lifetimes of diligent effort to dig deeply within and heal lifetimes of scars…. You can’t teach it or email it or tweet it. It has to be discovered within the depths of one’s own heart when a person is finally re
... See moreShe taught with the pull of a strong tide. Bit by exhausting bit we were pushed into an awareness of the pulse and beauty of life around us and how to put them together to make our own life song.”6
Rose Pacatte • Corita Kent: Gentle Revolutionary of the Heart (People of God)
spent a lot of class time feeling tenderness, as in raw, painful to the touch, but also wide open to what I was learning, including that I didn’t have to cut off my emotions to be a doctoral student—at least in Maury’s classes.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
classroom as a location of power—that
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
process of the course—with attention to collaborative learning, mindfulness, deep listening—helped to counter the themes of alienation from one’s body and the earth, upon which the class pivoted.