David Brooks on TED

David Brooks: “People learn from those people they love.”

Here's Brooks' TED link. Thanks, Jan, for sending this along!

I had a friend in college – wise for his age – who defined love (we were cynical young bucks at the time, wearing all black and smoking clove cigarettes) as “time spent well together”. This was in response to some transcendental notion of love… “soul mates”, etc.

And I think of that now when I think of good teaching – you really do need to have “caritas” for your students to make an impact. Learning can happen in other ways, but the learning that happens when a teacher DRAWS OUT a student, there is that kind of love.