Archive for December, 2000

“This Is A Place….”

“Brrrrrrr” ain’t the word for the chill outside. My face was pimpled by globs of small tear drops frozen to my cheeks. It was soon that icicles hung from my leaking nostrils. I was getting a headache from bumping into blocks of my frozen breath that floated in the air ahead of me. Even a [...]

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More on Teaching Eloquently

So many of you have asked me what it takes to teach eloquently. There isn’t any FIVE EASY STEPS type of answer. Teaching eloquently is as easy as scaling a mountain. You need a tender-heartedness, a tough-mindedness, a tenacious spirit, a constant vigilence, a sharp alertness, a supple attitude, a long reach, and a hopeful [...]

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Teaching Eloquently

Just had a brief conversation with an e-colleeague about teaching eloquently. I told him that I didn’t think that teaching eloquently really should be that grand lecture, that dramatic performance, that magnificant presentation. Teaching eloquently really means being a lid-lifter, a value adder, a transformer, a nurturer, a gift giver, and a servant. Make it [...]

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