The Importance of Teachers

I heard part of this while driving this morning. It doesn't sound like it would be about education, but the part I heard was. David Brooks was talking about the importance of the human connection on student learning. Could he mean the teacher? I think I will buy the book based on what I heard.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (KUER) - Thursday on RadioWest, a conversation with New York Times columnist David Brooks about his latest book "The Social Animal." The book gets at the story of how success happens. It's about the role of the inner mind - the unconscious - where intution and longing influence the human character. It's about that surprising relationship between reason and emotion. Mostly though it's about how who we are is determined not by our sense of individuality, but by our connections to each other.

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