whyiteach我缘何执教1(编辑修改稿)

whyiteach我缘何执教1(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

boss. If I want my firstyear position students to learn to write by creating in the course of the semester their own writing textbook, who is to say I may not? Such courses may be colossal failures, but I can learn from my colossal failures. Unlike most professionals, I get to erase my mistakes twice a year, wash the blackboard, and start off on a whole new set of trials and the errors that e with them. I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. Teaching, I sometimes brush up against good questions. I teach because I like to learn. Take the ma out of the question, Why do you teach, Pete? and you get a better question, Why do you teach Pete? I teach Pete because Pete gets as flat and stale as dayold beer if Pete stops learning. I stay alive as a teacher only as long as I am learning. One of the major discoveries of my professional life is that I teach best not what I know, but what I want to learn. I teach because I enjoy finding ways within an ivorytower profession to get myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called SelfReliance in a Technological Society. My fifteen students read Emerson and Thoreau and Huxley. They kept journals. They wrote term papers. But we also set up a corporation, borrowed money from a bank, purchased a rundown。