Words of Wisdom for Instructors
“Consciously, we teach what we know; unconsciously, we teach who we are.”
- Alice Hamachek
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“Finally, the most important immediate outcome . . . To help dancers learn in as many ways as possible, and to make teachers fluent in as many teaching languages as possible, including those visible and invisible ways of communicating things like care, concern, humor, warmth and love for the art, not only for the art of dance but the art of teaching, and the desire to pass these things on to other people by teaching them to dance, or at least for an hour, giving them wings to fly.”
- Joan Walton
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“To educe means to draw out or evoke that which is latent: education then means drawing out the person’s latent capacities for understanding and living, not stuffing a (passive) person full of preconceived knowledge.”
- Stephen Nachmanovich
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