The Courage to Teach, 10th Anniversary Edition: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life Audiobook (Free)

“This book is for teachers who’ve good days and bad-and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It really is for teachers who won’t harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching lifestyle.”- Parker J. Palmer, through the Introduction

For quite some time, Parker Palmer spent some time working on behalf of teachers and others who choose their vocations for reasons of the heart but might lose heart due to the troubled, occasionally toxic systems where they about The Courage to Teach, 10th Anniversary Edition: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life function. Thousands of people possess benefited from his approach in The Courage to instruct, which takes educators on an inner trip toward reconnecting with themselves, their college students, their colleagues, and their vocations and toward reclaiming their enthusiasm for one of the very most challenging and essential of human efforts.

This book builds on a straightforward premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching requires myriad forms, but great teachers talk about one characteristic: they may be authentically present in the class, in community with their learners and their subject, weaving connections that help their learners weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are kept not in their methods however in their hearts-the place where intellect, feelings, spirit, and will converge in the human self-supported by the city that emerges in our midst when we decide to live genuine lives.