Harkness Cautions: You Need A Sage On A Stage by Joshua Gibbs

Harkness Cautions: You Need A Sage On A Stage by Joshua Gibbs

A good teacher is not trying to inspire a lifelong spirit of inquiry. A good teacher is revealing Truth, and helping students to settle finally on the Truth. If a teacher is opening minds, he ought to be closing them on the life of God and morality and virtue, not leaving them endlessly dangling like broken jaws. The good teacher does not merely help students investigate the meaning of virtue, he commands them to be virtuous, explains virtue with clarity, and models virtue for them in his texts and his own life.

I could not love this iconoclast's ideas more. He makes me catch my breath.