Qualities of a Great Teacher

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Teaching and teachers are absolutely critical in the project of liberal education. What qualities do you see from great professors that really bring out the best in their students? The teacher is not trying to persuade you to see the world in the way that he or she sees it, but to develop your own capacity. A teacher also has to be in the context of a classroom, has to be a very good listener and kind of sort of conductor of conversation.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation