shahab on Nostr: "As much as it is the teacher's responsibility to guide the explorations of the ...

"As much as it is the teacher's responsibility to guide the explorations of the learners, the teacher does not and cannot pretend to do the exploration for the learners. What the teacher sees is important. But it is not so important as that the learners see, and see in their own terms. The revelation of the mystery of a particular reality is not the teacher's to give. Teachers do not provide new ways of seeing, or the appropriate understanding and fitting action that follow from it. Rather, they provide occasions for the learners' own new visions, understandings, and actions.... Such insights, understandings, and actions may very well be ones the teacher does not or cannot preconceive. The teacher does not define in advance what insights, understandings, and actions are hoped for, but may have to learn what true vision, appropriate understanding, and fitting action mean from the learners. In spite of the fact that the teacher directs learning, the teacher also learns from the learners. The teaching-learning process is profoundly mutual and participatory."

—Craig Dykstra