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Teaching in the Face of Fear
Parker Palmer

An excerpt from The Courage to Teach, Palmer begins by saying:
" If we want to improve the quality of college teaching, a million workshops on methodology will not be enough. Good teaching does not come from technique. It comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. "

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This link takes you to an University of Minnesota website that catalogs an experiment by 17 professors to document, in memoir-style, their careers in education. The page is actually a description of the faculty programming for this activity, but I think you'll find the professors' memoirs very interesting.

 
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