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is perhaps the greatest art since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artist. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck

is a giving, an offering... but what is offered in teaching is not the learnable, for the student is merely instructed to take for himself what he already has. He comes to learn only when he experiences what he takes as something he himself already has. True learning occurs only where the taking of what one already has is a self-giving and is experienced as such.

Teaching corresponds to this learning. Teaching is a giving, an offering... but what is offered in teaching is not the learnable, for the student is merely instructed to take for himself what he already has. If the student only takes over something that is offered he does not learn. He comes to learn only when he experiences what he takes as something he himself really already has. True learning occurs only where the taking of what one already has is a self-giving and is experienced as such. (heidegger 'modern science' 251)

is a matter of giving pupils something to do, not something to learn. The doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, and the learning is something that naturally results.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn... and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking... learning naturally results. John Dewey

is a relationship of power with the audience based on cupabiliaztion: The idea of making the audience feel guilty for not knowing things.

In a 1975 interview Foucault himself noted the strange particulairity of 'teaching' at the College de France, remarking that he liked not having 'the impression of teaching, that is, of exercising a relationship of power with respect to an audience.' The traditional teacher first makes his audience field guilty for not knowing a certain number of things they should know... then he places the audience under the obligation to learn the things that he, the professor, knows... and, finally, when he has taught these things, he will verify that the audience has indeed learned them. Cupabiliaztion, obligation, and verification are the series of power relations exercised by the typical professor. (foucault hermeneutics of self : (arnold davidson) xvi)

is a relationship of power with the audience based on obligation: The idea of placing a student under the obligation to learn the things the teacher knows.

is a relationship of power with the audience based on verification: The idea that he will verify that the audience has indeed learned the things the teacher knows.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.James Bellanca

is an activity of discipline involving the instilling of guilt and inferiority, of obligation, and then exercising verification to make sure these things have stuck.

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