MacDonald, _Teaching: Making Sense of an Uncertain Craft_

Chapter 1: Uncertainty in Teaching

"As soon as I finished teaching the first class I ever taught, I asked my supervisor what he thought. He told me he thought I had taught as though speaking from the next room through a tube."

"Once a researcher told me he had given up school-based research since he had not been able to find a single school that matched his theoretical model of a just community. He was not inclined to adjust his model to what he had been able to find."

"The most clear-sighted teachers manage simultaneously to reveal to their students-- and to bear solidly in mind themselves-- that confidence and certainty are not the same thing and that doubt is a key intellectual tool."