the feminist librarian reads

So, to return to responsibility: blaming students in this way isn’t just unhelpful, it’s also unfair. If you want to claim the right to be an authority due to age, position and experience, then the knowledge you’ve gained is a privilege and also a burden; the onus is on you to find the best way to share it, to help students find their way to understanding. That’s a challenge of the job, and it’s the responsibility that neither of these critics seems willing to take on, though surely it’s part of what’s at the core of teaching as a practice.