Frank McCourt: "They thought I was teaching ... I was learning."
As he put it in “Teacher Man,” his third volume of autobiography:Instead of teaching, I told stories.Anything to keep them quiet and in their seats.They thought I was teaching.I thought I was teaching.I was learning.
Good words to live by: teaching is learning.
Full story here on Frank McCourt's teaching (and learning and writing) methods from the New York Times:
