The Courage to Teach

The ex-registrar of scgs gave me this book " The Courage to Teach" as my farewell present when I left scgs. She wrote me a card, and said, a teacher at heart will always be a teacher. And she knows wherever i go, I will always teach.

In this book, Parker J Palmer says,

"- We invite diversity into our community not because it is politically correct but because diverse viewpoints are demanded by the manifold mystery of great things.

- We embrace ambiguity not because we are confused or indecisive but because we understand the inadequacy of our concepts to embrace the vastness of great things.

- We welcome creative conflict not because we are angry or hostile, but because conflict is required to correct our biases and prejudices about the nature of great things.

- We practice honesty not only because we owe it to one another but because to lie about what we have seen would be to betray the truth of great things.

- We experience humility not because we have fought and lost but because humility is the only lens through which great things can be seen- and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible."

Sublime words. To be assimilated and lived.