The relationship between a student and their teacher traditionally is one that involves much guidance and direction, but also quite a bit of lecturing and “telling.” As Paulo Freire puts it, “A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character” (qtd. in Bartholomae 259). This relationship is sometimes ok – the teacher obviously more of an expert on the given topic they are teaching that the …showed first 75 words of 1838 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1838 total…away from their classes goes even beyond the boundaries of the subject matter, but stretches into the psychological word of the students. They will have more confidence with their abilities, and be more eager to learn in the future. Education is not just learning classroom topics, but it is also learning how to apply these topics, how to think outside the scope of the norm, and to achieve success through thought, rather than through memorization.