Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 24, Number 2

Part of being a good teacher (not all) is knowing that you always have something new to learn--not so much about teaching techniques but about these particular students at this particular time and their particular sets of aspirations, confusions, misconceptions, and ignorance. . . . We will not reach all students equally, but there is something to learn about each one of them and about human learning in general. (Bain, 2004, p. 174)