from jduemer at sharp sand.

Education, because it emerges from a process — a relationship between teachers & students — cannot be containerized & sold over the counter. Or over the internet. … By the way, the surest way to see if education is taking place is to notice if the person designated as the teacher periodically & usually unpredictably inverts the binary relationship, becoming student to his/her classroom full of teachers.

ah … this last makes me feel a whole lot better about those (not infrequent) moments when i’ve found myself out to sea inside a text, only to be re-oriented by a student’s apt insight … in those times of confusion, i’ve found it most helpful to throw myself on the mercy of the room … and i usually get it …

also … it was a student waybackwhen who taught me how to set up a webpage … (& i still have pleasant memories of those pre-yahoo geocities days)