November 15, 2002

Students Won't Respect Teachers if Teachers Don't Respect Students

To the Editor:

I'm not sure what Miriam Kalman Harris means by "smarter," but her central goals as a teacher are ones I recognize: We would all like our students to respect learning and to master the curriculum ("We Are Smarter Than Our Students," The Review, October 11). Perhaps lecturing on the definition of terms is one method for achieving those goals, but plowing ahead with a lesson despite a student's questions (as irrelevant as they may appear to be) is not likely to produce

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