Sublime

Psychologists suspect that teachers are in fact politicians. Of course, not self-confident enough to go into politics—they move to the schools and there they become presidents, prime ministers, emperors. Small children—and they order them and they force them. Psychologists also suspect that teachers have an inclination toward being sadistic, they w

They unconsciously developed defenses against experiencing many of their deeper feelings.

This early training to “be nice” causes women to override their intuitions.

K. had a rather harsh mother who was a perfectionist and was never satisfied. When K. did the inner-child exercises, she found a frightened six-year-old who felt inadequate and was afraid of displeasing her mommy.

Finally one discovers too late that personality is not inherent in the self but comes from those around us, who have disappeared in my case.

change the “goal

In each of these three roles the teacher bases his authority on a different claim. The teacher-as-custodian acts as a master of ceremonies, who guides his pupils through a drawn-out labyrinthine ritual. He arbitrates the observance of rules and administers the intricate rubrics of initiation to life. At his best, he sets the stage for the acquisiti

Gretchen was in effect asking to find and remove the key untrue limiting assumption that was the block to her power.

education does not work with the child’s abilities, but against them.