Great Quotes for Syllabi

My preferences, my desires, my subjective states must again and again be modified and repudiated as I am dragged, kicking and screaming, out of infantile solipsism and into adult membership in an inquiring community. (Wayne Booth, Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent, p. 13)

Laurent Daloz expands on Knowles' definition: "In the end, good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelf-full of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance...It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening" (Daloz qtd. in Kiskis, "Reflections on Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Power" In Pedagogy in the Age of Politics, p. 60)