Courageous Teaching

Courageous Teaching

In his 1995 book, "The End of Education", Neil Postman recommended a simple strategy to reinstill critical thinking in schooling and education

?During this semester, I will be doing a great deal of talking. I will be giving lectures, answering questions, and conducting discussions. Since I am an imperfect scholar and, even more certainly, a fallible human being, I will inevitably be making factual errors, drawing some unjustifiable conclusions, and perhaps passing along my opinions as facts. I should be very unhappy if you were unaware of these mistakes. To minimize that possibility, I am going to make you all honorary members of Accuracy in Academia. Your task is to make sure that none of my errors goes by unnoticed. At the beginning of each class I will, in fact, ask you to reveal whatever errors I made in the previous session. You must, of course, say why these are errors, indicate the source of your authority, and, if possible, suggest a truer or more useful or less biased way of formulating what I said. Your grade in this course will be based to some extent on the rigor with which you pursue my mistakes. And to ensure that you do not fall into the torpor that is so common among students, I will, from time to time, deliberately include some patently untrue statements and some outrageous opinions. There is no need for you to do this alone. You should consult with your classmates, perhaps even form a study group which can collectively review the things I have said. Nothing would please me more than for one or several of you to ask for class time in which to present a corrected or alternative version of one of my lectures.?

-- Neil Postman


Hoda Aden Mohamed

Corporate Compliance | Corporate Ethics & Conduct | Corporate Crime | Corporate Internal Controls | Holistic Corporate Risk Mngt

4 年

I should take one of your classes, sounds fun and interesting! Love the approach... Reminds me a lot of my London/Coventry (UK) professors and lecturers. Academia is fun if the one who teaches, teaches it correct; with passion, rigorous creativity and care/compassion! Seems you embody good teaching qualities and therefore make the students in your class(es) lucky to have you. ??

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