Sublime

My responsibility to the people I mentor is to add value. My goal is always to help them to become more than they are, not to try to make them something they’re not. These are the areas I focus on: • Strengths • Temperament • Track record • Passion • Choices • Advice • Support, Resources/People • Game plan • Feedback • Encouragement

As leaders, we should think of ourselves as teachers and try to create companies in which teaching is seen as a valued way to contribute to the success of the whole.

A maieutic teacher helps bring into the light ideas that have been growing inside his pupils.”

who is the self that teaches? How does the quality of my selfhood form—or deform—the way I relate to my students, my subject, my colleagues, my world? How can educational institutions sustain and deepen the selfhood from which good teaching comes?

we want to nurture young people who are resilient, self-reliant, entrepreneurial and adventurous – and I argue that we need to – we have to let them take risks. Risk-aversion is the last quality we need to be building in our children. As Stephen Moss put it in a report on play for the National Trust, ‘A potential risk is that children who don’t tak

Ron wanted his students to experience the joy of discovery, so he didn’t start by teaching them established knowledge.