Teaching with Your Mouth Shut

Our traditional "Great Teacher" teaches by telling, inspiring students through eloquent, passionate oration. For Donald Finkel this view is destructively narrow: it takes for granted that teachers teach, fundamentally and centrally, by telling students what they are supposed to know. In Teaching with Your Mouth Shut, Finkel proposes an alternative vision of teaching—one that is deeply democratic in its implications.

Each chapter in this book presents a case study, a story, or a sustained i...