Fecho sounds like a really caring, thoughtful teacher. I'm down with the critical inquiry stance. I love Rosenblatt, Freire, and Delpit, too, who he sews together so nicely (maybe too nicely?). I like you, Bob. I like your message. So much so that I'll forgive you for the following bits of prose:
* "the summer institute had me wading waist deep and then diving through the swells of pedagogy"
* "As I let the waves of ideas... wash over me, I managed to catch hold of a starfish or two."
* "dialogue with colleagues... served to knit my various skeins of understanding into an intellectual comforter that knew no end" [I'm a knitter, and even I hated that line]
And did anyone else notice his penchant for making goofy reversals like:
"not all questions are inquiries, and not all inquiries are questions"
"in search of wise beauty and beautiful wisdom"
Seriously, though, there are so many beautiful, quotable lines in this book. My favorite today, as I tore my hair out over my syllabus, was this quote from Aaron in Chapter 8:
"You can make your decisions, but you just got to make sure you can back them up."
Don't remind me...
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Yeah, I second the dislike of the knitting thing... Sometimes extended metaphors aren't the best way to communicate. I'm impressed you found all those quotes along the way.
And my knitting has been calling to me as I struggle to focus on papers and the like.
So once the craziness of finals is over you need to keep writing!!!
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