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Random Thoughts II: Teaching from the Heart (1997)

Author(s): Schmier, Louis

Media Type: Book

Category: Teaching Theory and Psychology

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This book takes you on a revealing and often painful personal journey. It's a never-ending educational expedition to discover "the bedrock of each student's human potential" - because teaching "is like mining for gold, and we teachers are the prospectors whose task is to invite students to dig alongside us as their own prospectors mining for their own paydirt."

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