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O C I O L O G Y F O R D E M O C R A C Y
WRITINGS
AND TEACHINGS
KENNETH
WESTHUES
Professor of Sociology
University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
519.888.4567, ext 33660
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If leadership does not mean coercion in any form, if it does
not mean controlling, protecting or exploiting, what does it mean?
It means, I (think) freeing. The greatest service the teacher can
render the student is to increase his freedom — his free range
of activity and thought and his power of control.
— Mary Parker Follett, "The
Teacher-Student Relation," 1928.
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Direct:
Reciprocity insists that in the pedagogical scale of values,
first place be reserved for every individual student's autonomous
intellectual development, whether that is in the direction we approve,
or not.
— "On Trying Not to
Be a Kierkegaardian Professor," Atlanta, Georgia, November 1985.
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