Passage from "To Know as We are Known"

"To sit in a class where the teacher stuffs our minds with information, organizes it with finality, insists on having the answers while being utterly uninterested with our views, and forces us into a grim competition for grades - to sit in such a class is to experience a lack of space for learning."

"But to study with a teacher who not only speaks but listens, who not only gives answers but asks questions, and welcomes our insights, who provides information and theories that do not close doors but open new ones, who encourages students to help each other learn - to study with such a teacher is to know the power of learning space"

Parker Palmer (pg. 71)

I appreciate professors who teach like the second paragraph, not the first. Learning is interaction, not just lecturing. PTL for instructors who actually value the students.