Parker J. Palmer Quotes
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.
I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.
You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.
You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.
By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another’s solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.
Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.