“This book is for teachers who’ve good days and bad-and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It really is for instructors who won’t harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching lifestyle.”- Parker J. Palmer, from the Introduction

For many years, Parker Palmer has worked with respect to teachers and other people who choose their vocations for factors of the heart but might lose heart due to the troubled, sometimes toxic systems where they about The Courage to instruct, 10th Anniversary Edition: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life function. Thousands of people possess benefited from his strategy in The Courage to instruct, which takes teachers on an inner trip toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, their co-workers, and their vocations and toward reclaiming their passion for one of the very most challenging and essential of human efforts.

This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching can’t be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Great teaching requires myriad forms, but great teachers share one trait: these are authentically within the class room, in community with their students and their subject matter, weaving connections that help their students weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods however in their hearts-the place where intellect, emotion, spirit, and will converge in the human self-supported by the city that emerges among us when we decide to live genuine lives.