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PENDLE HILL PAMPHLET 278
EducationAnd The
Inward Teacher
Paul A. Lacey
PENDLE HILL PUBLICATIONS
WALLINGFORD, PENNSYLVANIA
PENDLE HILL PAMPHLET 278
PAUL A. LACEY
Education And The Inward Teacher
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Copyrigh t 19 88 by Pend le Hill
Repu blish ed electronically 20 03 by Pend le Hill
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pau l A. Lacey was b orn in Philadelph ia in
193 4. He is m arr ied to Margaret Sm ith Lacey an d th ey ha ve
three children. He joined Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in1 9 5 3 , h a v in g f i r s t m e t Q u a k e r s t h r o u g h w e e k en d
workcamps . He has been ac t ive in c iv i l l iber t i es , c iv i l
r ight s , peace an d Ea s t -Wes t concerns wi th Fr iends , bu t h is
profession is teaching l i terature. He is the author of Th e
Inner War: Forms and Themes in Recent American Poetry
(Fortres s Pres s, 19 72 ). He is Profess or of En glish Litera tu re,
at Earlham College, where he has also served as Provost
an d Act ing President a nd as Facul ty Consu ltan t on Teachingan d Learn ing. From 1 979-82 h e was Consu ltan t an d Director
o f a p r og r am o f Pos t - Doc t o r a l Teach i ng Fe l l ows h i ps ,
spon sored by Lil ly End owment , Inc. , a t a nu mb er of ma jor
A m e r i c a n u n i v e r s i t i e s . I n 1 9 8 3 h e e d i t e d Revi tal iz ing
Teaching Through Faculty Developmen t(J ossey-Bass ) an d ha s
pu blish ed a n u m ber of art icles on tea ching, li terary crit icism
and facul ty development . Current ly at Earlham, he holds
the D. E lton Trueb lood Cha ir of Chris t ian Thou ght .
This pamphlet develops more ful ly themes examined
in Quakers a nd the Use of Power, Pendle Hill Pamph let 24 1,
1982 , and Leading and Being Led, Pend le Hill Pam ph let 26 4,
198 5. The au thor b elieves th e Inwa rd Teacher is a p owerfu l
metaphor for understanding the experience of leading and
being led and thu s the order of power Qua kers sh ould use
in sh aping th eir inst i tu t iona l lives . In th is essa y he focus esthe metaphor on cr i t ical issues in educat ion.
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Car e i s a qua l i t y e s s en t i a l f o r p s ycho- s oc i a l
evolution, for we are th e teach ing species . On ly
ma n can an d m u s t ex tend h is s o lic itud e over
the long, paral lel and overlapping chi ldhoods of
num er ous o f f s p r i ng un i t ed i n hous eho l ds and
com m uni t i e s . 1
Erik Erikson
The teaching-learning process is a pecul iar ly human
act ivity; we are n ot the on ly creatu res to teach their you ng,but we humans depend a lmos t en t i re ly on l earn ing f rom
others how to m ake our way in the world. Very lit t le comes
to us so le ly through ins t inc t , and even where we have
i n n a t e c a p a c i t i e s , s u c h a s t h e c a p a c i t y f o r s p e e c h o r
learn ing to walk , we mu s t be t au ght how to use th em. Er ik
Er i k s on ca l l s u s t he t e ach i ng s pec i e s , r a t he r t han t he
learning one, but i t i s impossible to be one without being
the other . Teaching and learn ing make u p a s ingle int r icate
process of interchange in relat ionship, interplay between
people an d with conten t the t ran sm ission of informa tion,
ski lls , processes , b u t a lso of values , of wha t Erikson cal ls a
world image and style of fellowship. We teach because we
need to be needed, he says , and because th ings a re kept
alive by being ta u ght, logic by being pr acticed, ideas by being
professed.Becau se we mu st learn vir tu al ly everything we know,
the ima ge of th e teach er is a powerfu l one. We reserve the
word for people whose act ions have the greatest meaning
for u s: rel igious leaders , ph ilosoph ers , s cient is ts , writers ,
art ists, great polit ical lead ers, s ocial activists a n d libera tors
when we want to speak of the depth of their impact on
us , we s t ress the i r ro les as condui t s of knowledge and
w i s d o m , a s t eachers . I f t h e t r u t h m a k e s u s f r e e , o u rl iberators are teachers .
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