Too much HOW for the WHAT!

I attended the Dialogue Education Institute conference in Chapel Hill last week where I had the privilege to embark in an exciting learning journey on Dialogue Education with a group of incredible human beings.
During those days I jotted down some memorable quotes in my journal.


On the need for teacher's integrity:
“The hurt of a teacher is more damaging than the hurt of a farmer!”

On discovering Jane’s work and finally being able to express previously intuitively held concepts: “There is language for this!”

On identity: “I am a natural learner. It comes from my own needs”

On a book to be written for teachers: “How to avoid answering an open question”

On reflection: “How do we think about what we do and whether we think it or not?”

On the difficulty in doing learning needs assessment: “How do you assess the need that is not expressed?”

On having fun when learning: “Is content an excuse to get together?”

On the work of the teacher: “All we do is unfreezing!”

On dealing with the ‘Professor’: “Ignore the teacher. It will go away!”

On the need for action: “Unless we do it, we are not doing it”

On the real work of the teacher: “We do not teach Math, we teach people”

On a possible label for Dialogue Educators: “The positive deviants”

On learning objectives set up by the ‘Professor’: “At the end of the course… you will know what this course is all about!”

On autonomy: “How can students be subject of their own learning if all we ask them to do is following our instructions?”

On Teaching and talking: "I got the privilege to be the Big Mouth"

On Peace: "If you want to be my enemy you have your work cut out for you"

On Dialogue Education: “Dialogue Education: the artful dance between flow and structure in the building of shared meaning”