\u201c\u2026 our assumption that students are brain-dead leads to pedagogies that deaden their brains. When we teach by dripping information into their passive forms, students who arrive in the classroom alive and well become passive consumers of knowledge and are dead on departure when they graduate\u2026. we rarely consider that students may die in the classroom because we use methods that assume they are dead.\u201d Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201c\u2026 our assumption that students are brain-dead leads to pedagogies that deaden their brains. When we teach by dripping information into their passive forms, students who arrive in the classroom alive and well become passive consumers of knowledge and are dead on departure when they graduate\u2026. we rarely consider that students may die in the … <\/p>\n