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This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, in community with their students and their subject. They possess "a capacity for connectedness" and are able to weave a complex web of connections between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their students weave a world for themselves. Connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts–the place where intellect, emotion, spirit, and will converge in the human self.
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"A teacher, speaker and writer who contends that teaching is an integral part of all his work, Palmer now explores the spirituality of teaching….Palmer lays bare his own struggles in engaging prose, and his book is sure to inspire the educational community to think in new ways about its tasks."
Publishers Weekly
"Evokes the heart of what teachers really do, and does so in a vivid, compelling, and soulful way."
Robert Coles, Harvard University
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad-and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."
Parker J. Palmer (from the Introduction)