
On the First Day of Class, Begin with Intrigue
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on
January 2026



January 12, 2026 | By Nichole DeWall
January 12, 2026 | By Illysa Izenberg and Nathan Perlman
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. And in doing that, he or she lives the experience of relating democratically as authority with the freedom of students.”
—Paulo Freire, We Make the World by Walking

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on

Various aspects of the syllabus have been studied, among them issues of tone, its use of images, its length, whether

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