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after John Cage<\/i><\/p>\n
1. only ask the questions to which you really need answers<\/p>\n
2. demonstrate uncertainty<\/p>\n
3. reconstruct for your students your own previous errors of thought and elucidate to your students what factors lead to a changed mind<\/p>\n
4. do not let the terms with which you understand the world get in the way of understanding it<\/p>\n
5. give up any desire to be the smartest person in the room<\/p>\n
6. remember that students have bodies and that bodies require movement, sustenance, rest, and relief<\/p>\n
7. leave an inheritance of dialectic<\/p>\n
8. preserve and sustain whatever delusions you\u2019ve found necessary to behave in good faith<\/p>\n
9. every student is a genius<\/p>\n
10. do not be afraid to state the obvious<\/p>\n
11. a socratic bully is still a bully<\/p>\n
12. thoroughly prepare class, including making preparations to abandon your preparations entirely<\/p>\n
13. listen with your body<\/p>\n
14. suspect charisma<\/p>\n
15. conduct yourself in such a way that your students can eventually forget that you exist<\/p>\n
Anne Boyer, poet & teacher <\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.anneboyer.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [NOTE: This, marvellous, piece was originally written in 2015 quite independently of this project. Someone drew it to my attention recently and I contacted Anne Boyer who has kindly allowed its reproduction here. Michael]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 after John Cage 1. only ask the questions to which you really need answers 2. demonstrate uncertainty 3. reconstruct for your students your own previous errors of thought and elucidate to your students what factors lead to a changed mind 4. do not let the terms with which you understand the world get in…Read more Some Rules for Teachers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}