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Professors want their students to leave courses more confident, more critical, more knowledgeable, more respectful of ideas, more able to appreciate beauty, more questioning, more powerful, more human, and more capable of passion.
Teaching is a job with so many goals that we professors sometimes lose sight of the main goal . . . whatever that is. Is it our job to teach a body of information? An approach to life? A respect for ideas? A love of truth? An ability to think? An appreciation of beauty? A way to earn a living? We in the profession are in frustrating but glorious confusion about what our primary task is with respect to our students.
Teaching is like fathering, but my power as a teacher is not based on my students' dependence on me for money or clothes or food or shelter. Rather, it is based on what I know and on what I know how to do. I have knowledge, and that knowledge gives me the only real power I have over students. Yes, I dispense grades, but those are chicken feed, and they give me power only over the chickens. The essential power of the professoriate is the power of knowledge. Students come into my power because I know something they do not know, something they need to know if they want to get along better in the world. I know which books are most worth reading, and why. I know how to write an essay that persuades. I know P. G. Bcidla (ed.). Lklinguished B a c k s on EJfecliuc Tmching.
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