William Deresiewicz Quotes

Academic Training Actively Deprives You Of The Qualities That Make For Good Teaching. A Good Teacher Speaks Plainly, In Vivid, Accessible Language, Because She Is Addressing What Amounts To A General Audience. But The Kind Of Jargon Academics Learn To Use Is Designed To Repel The Uninitiated. A Good Teacher Ranges Widely, Making Connections Among Subjects As Well As From Learning To Life. But Academics Are Constrained To Specialize, And Increasingly, To Hyperspecialize, Looking Neither Left Nor Right As They Plow Their Little Corner Of The Field.

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