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KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor of Sociology
University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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Updated with quotes for November 2009:

Classic:
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.

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.

Garden moment for November: Leaves of the flame maple (Acer ginnala) are strewn on the terrace, while those of Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia durior) still cover the arbor.

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First published, 1 September 2002.