Holding Simultaneous Contradictory Views: Good Teaching







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My mother taught me many important things. One of them is related to this statement that she made one day: “I love your father very, very much. I absolutely hate the fact that he ALWAYS leaves the top off the toothpaste tube.” She followed up by saying that it is possible, and even reasonable, to feel two totally contradictory ways about the same thing.

All of you who are here today know that great teachers are not born, we work very hard at it. It requires an attitude of constant reflection about one's teaching, willingness to learn and change, and humbleness.