What is my teaching philosophy?
I believe to teach well in our culture today, given the predominant political and economic paradigms, I must resist the temptation to succumb to the traditional idea of students as empty vessels into which we, as teachers, pour knowledge. I find it ineffective and unfulfilling to view students merely as "Full-time Equivalents," products on an assembly line, passing through a series of classes on the way to receiving their final certificate of quality approval, a diploma. more...
"Ask yourself what kind of world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to help build that world? Demand that your teachers teach you that." - Prince Kropotkin (the Russian Anarchist Prince)
